Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and politician who has been the Managing Directorof the International Monetary Fundsince 5 July 2011...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 January 1956
CountryFrance
good-work
We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.
country
Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.
country people economy
We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.
apply orthodox reasonable thousands
If we have tens of thousands of pullovers piled up at our frontiers, it's not very reasonable to apply it in a completely orthodox way,
innovation globalization enjoy
We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.
trade
There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.
bright eldest family help lucky man passed strong support three
My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.
helping-others thinking people
When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.
consensus major progress
There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),
cannot commission france proposals support therefore
As things stand, France therefore cannot support the commission in the agriculture proposals it has made,
line red remind
We need to remind the commissioner of the red line of his mandate,
attentive brought elbow grew minority period sentiment suffered time
Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.
frankly limit offer
We put that offer on the table, which is frankly the limit of where we can go.
certainly china countries emerging europe instance large propose
We certainly feel in Europe that we have made very large concessions. The emerging countries, particularly the large emerging countries -- China for instance -- are going to have to propose concessions.