Chrystia Freeland

It was surprising to me to hear a member question whether another member of the House was an adult. We\'re all adults in the House of Commons, and I think it diminishes us all to suggest otherwise.

The age of economic relations as the primary arena for interactions between states is already upon us.

Assad is not the greatest ally to have.

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.

If you believe in democracy, than you can\'t trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian language and Russian culture.

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.

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.

If you\'ve developed an ideology that what\'s good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that\'s quite wonderful because there\'s no moral tension.

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.

The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it\'s the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

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

Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.

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

The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.

Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast and North Africa, they\'re losing out to the Islamists, who\'ve built protest movements the old-fashioned way. And in Moscow, the Mink revolutionaries, who are united by Live-Journal but not much else, were easy for Putin to outmaneuver.

Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.

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

If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.

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

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.

Motherhood may be a \'killer\' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of baby\'s lips to bosom, a big and growing number find themselves able - and often required - to bring home the family bacon.

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

I see real opportunities for us to have stronger, closer collaboration between the three North American partners and seize on opportunities to achieve objectives of more jobs and growth.

The hollowing out of the middle class. That\'s not just about capitalism or the structure of taxation. That is also about the fundamental truth that machines can do a lot of things better than humans used to do. A lot of those people are being pushed down to do less value-adding jobs, so they get paid less money.

Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about \'the curse of oil,\' and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.

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

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

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

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.