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.

Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

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 women do better, economies do better.

Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward multilateralism. Support for the environmental protection cause. It's relationship between people and nature.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.