Trade Agreements Quotes

• The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, Economic Integration, World

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

  Christine Lagarde

  Agreement, Diversity, Needs

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

  David Brooks

  Running, Agreement, Long

  "Shields and Brooks on the Senate's trade battle, train safety funding". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Agreement

  "Breaking the Sound Barrier: Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 16, 2008.

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• Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.

  Brian Behlendorf

  Real, Agreement, World

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• I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, Agreement

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The message is NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) is there. NAFTA has helped both our countries enormously. We live up to the terms of NAFTA. We ask you, our best friend and most important trading partner to do the same thing.

  Anne McLellan

  Country, Agreement, Important

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• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Agreement, Environmental

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". www.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

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• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Country, Countries Of The World, Agreement

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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  Xavier Becerra

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. He would give corporations the key to the treasury while he gets the authority to fast track another hammering of working people and the environment. Yet the only people who get a real tongue-lashing from this President's White House are progressives around town who dare to call him on the carpet for abandoning his promises.

  Bill Moyers

  Real, Agreement, White

  Source: progressive.org

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• Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, United States, Pillars

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.

  Alan Brien

  Country, Agreement, Special

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• You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements].

  John Kasich

  Running, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

  Collin Peterson

  Agreement, America, Needs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and China. A similar agreement was concluded a short time ago with Vietnam. Then, we will coordinate, at least we are ready to do this, the Chinese concept of the Silk Road Economic Belt with our newly-created regional organisation. So, do you understand how diverse, multi-faceted and deep Russian-Chinese ties have become over the last couple of decades? And we resolved the border issue.

  Vladimir Putin

  Couple, Agreement, Talking

  Source: www.rt.com

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• China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.

  David E. Bonior

  Agreement, Enforcement, Lasts

  "Fight Continues Over China Trade Vote with Outcome too Close to Call". "CNN News" with Major Garrett, www.cnn.com. May 21, 2000.

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• You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

  Donald Evans

  Country, Yes I Can, Agreement

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• We have to develop a strong economic message which says every American is entitled to health care through a national health care program. And we're not going to allow these large corporations to push through trade agreements which allow them to throw Americans out on the street and run to China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Strong, Agreement

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization.

  Michael Froman

  Agreement, Shapes, Globalization

  "Trade Negotiator Michael Froman Insists TPP Will Work". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come up strongly in favor of concluding a trade agreement with the United States of America.

  Angela Merkel

  Agreement, America, Important

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.

  Angela Merkel

  Issues, Agreement, Paris

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

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• It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade.

  Noam Chomsky

  Agreement, Trade, Free Trade

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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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• People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

  John Kasich

  Country, Agreement, People

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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