"The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace."

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Source : "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Interview with Daniel Altman, bigthink.com.

Daniel Altman

#Country Quotes #Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.”
“The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.”
“Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...”
“Being a good human being is good business.”
“But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don't despise them nearly as much as we should.”
“Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.”
“Liberty is about our rights to question everything.”
“When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"”

Source : Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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