The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
“Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.”
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989) General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
Source: Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, p. 73 during 1977, said to be "his favorite slogan"
Günter Reimann (1904–2005) German economist
Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 216
“I consider myself more exportant than important.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Shades of the World, by Vanna Bonta; quoted in American Chronicle. Vanna Bonta interview, Inventors Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful http://archive.is/20120718091208/www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101039 May 02, 2009
Theresa May (1956) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech as Home Secretary on the UK and European Union https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretarys-speech-on-the-uk-eu-and-our-place-in-the-world (25 April 2016)
“We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting control.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“The dominant role played by… exporters’ and importers’ GNP and distance in explaining trade flows.”
Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) Dutch economist
Source: Shaping the world economy, 1962, p. 266
Sebastian Gorka (1970) American politician
America First with Sebastian Gorka, The 2020 Gun Confiscation Primary: Grant Stinchfield with Sebastian Gorka on AMERICA First
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister
Source: Speech to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom at the Dorchester Hotel (13 October 1949), quoted in The Times (14 October 1949), p. 4
