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

Chrystia Freeland

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

Chrystia Freeland

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.

Chrystia Freeland

Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

Chrystia Freeland

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.

Chrystia Freeland

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.

Chrystia Freeland

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.

Chrystia Freeland

When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.

Chrystia Freeland

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

Chrystia Freeland

Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.

Chrystia Freeland

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

Chrystia Freeland

One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.

Chrystia Freeland

The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.

Chrystia Freeland

Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

Chrystia Freeland

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

Chrystia Freeland

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

Chrystia Freeland

The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.

Chrystia Freeland

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

Chrystia Freeland

Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.

Chrystia Freeland

Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.

Chrystia Freeland

Chrystia Freeland Quotes

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

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

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.

Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

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.

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.

When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.

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

Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.

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

One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.

The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.

Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.

Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.