102 Quotes by Chrystia Freeland

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

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.

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.

Assad is not the greatest ally to have.

I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.