I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.
Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.
If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.
I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.
Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked after. Governments must establish policies, and governments and companies must actually address that issue, so that those who lose out from globalization can be retrained, recycled, re-established, cared for.
I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.
I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.
We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.
I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.
I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.
All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.
When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.
Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.
The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.
In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.
Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.
I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.
It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.
People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.
When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.
Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
