Free Trade Quotes - Page 5

• I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free trade, global capitalism, open borders.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• [Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

  Mark Shields

  Cheer, Party, Flags

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• What Donald Trump has been concerned about, what he`s talked about, is when we get deals that don`t level the playing field, when we get deals that aren`t the kinds of best deals we can get, we want good deals, and those are free trade deals to lower the barriers between trade between two countries.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Two, Fields

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• That means we get other countries to play by our rules. You add up all the countries that we have trade agreements with, we have a surplus with them. You add up the countries we do not have a trade agreement with, that`s where a massive trade deficit comes from. So our goal is to get free trade agreements, and that means we get other countries to play and live by our rules so we can level the playing field.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Mean, Play

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think Brexit's going to be a wonderful thing for Britain. I think when it irons out, you're gonna have your own identity and you're going to have the people that you want in your country and you're going to be able to make free trade deals without having somebody watching you and what you're doing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Iron

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Numbers, Agreement

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It's illegal, but when you've got a lawless government, it doesn't matter if it's illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Government, Agreement

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.

  Joseph E. Brown

  Men, People, Doe

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• Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and world peace. Tuesday, 4 August 1914 brought that experiment to an abrupt halt.

  Kenneth O. Morgan

  August, Tuesday, History

  Kenneth O. Morgan (1984). “The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain”, p.522, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.

  Faustino Ballve

  Country, Mean, Government

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• Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

  Alan Ryan

  Men, Ideas, Roots

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• Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, America, Balance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

  Joseph Hume

  World, Corn, Advantage

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• I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Wine, Trade Zone, Joining

  Blog, April 29, 2009.

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• And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

  Arthur Laffer

  Government, Done, Too Much

  "The Journal Editorial Report", www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.

  Joan Robinson

  Gold, Lasts, Messages

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

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• I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.

  Russ Feingold

  Agreement, Expression, Administration

  Congressional Record Volume 151 - Part 11, June 30, 2005.

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

  Ron Wyden

  Agreement, Oregon, Want

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• If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

  Vijay Mallya

  Thinking, India, Want

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• The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist

  Danny Glover

  Latin, War, Agreement

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• Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

  John McCain

  Colombia, Trade, No Brainer

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Intellectual

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