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" We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation. "

Chrystia Freeland

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" The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad. "

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" Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger. "

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" Thanks to globalization and the technology revolution, the nature of work, the distribution of the rewards from that work, and maybe even the economic cycle itself are being transformed. "

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" We in Canada are not going to say Muslims are worse than Christians or are worse than Jews or are worse than atheists. "

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" People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good. "

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" The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world. "

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" It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence. "

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" When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization. "

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" The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it. "

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" Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes. "

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" Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea. "

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" Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico. "

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" This notion that borders wouldn't matter, that we would have commonality of interests around the world. Well, guess who got there first? The plutocrats. "

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" I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class. "

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" It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system. I think that Canadians and, indeed, other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us. "

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" Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic. "

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" This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that. "

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" In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue. "

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" In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult. "

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" We are very proud, wherever we are in the world, to tell you about Canadian values and what we think is the right thing for Canada to do. And when it comes to refugees, we very much believe in welcoming refugees to our country, and that includes Syrian refugees, and that includes Muslim refugees. "

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" Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading. "

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" I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium. "

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" In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy. "

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" Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered. "

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