Trade Agreements Quotes - Page 2

• Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, Support, United States

  "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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• The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Agreement, Ideas, Movement

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• Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

  Mitt Romney

  Agreement, America, Cheat

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

  Maureen Dowd

  Agreement, People, Style

  "Should Michelle Cover Up?" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 2009.

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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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• The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Autumn, Agreement

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• What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

  Gordon Brown

  Agreement, Debt, Hong Kong

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• We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Epidemics, Agreement, America

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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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• Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

  Kent Conrad

  Agreement, Recipes, Sugar

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• It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.

  Chris Martin

  Agreement, Rhyme, Trade

  "Coldplay get behind fair trade campaign" by David Munk, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2003.

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• There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

  Ernest Istook

  Agreement, Australia, Important

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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Agreement, Normal, Partnership

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  Paul Newman

  Agreement, Ideas, Oil

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• Donald Trump has been rejecting the idea of trade agreements like NAFTA, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  Audie Cornish

  Agreement, Ideas, Partnership

  "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.

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• My advice is to listen and accept the will of the American people, the Republican voters. The Republican Party is the Republican voters, and Republican voters oppose these trade agreements more than Democrat voters do.

  Jeff Sessions

  Party, Agreement, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right.

  Jeff Sessions

  Believe, Agreement, Years

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• This rhetoric that Donald Trump is used is very consistent with rhetoric he's used on the campaign trail for a long time now. He'll always say - and you look - you can look at the past transcripts of his old speeches. He'll always say, I'm in favor of trade; trade is great, but these deals - NAFTA, TPP, the South Korean Free Trade Agreement - are all terrible.

  Avik Roy

  Past, Agreement, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare and health systems? Fifty-three free-trade agreements, which were negotiated by the EU on behalf of all Member States, are also hanging in the balance for the UK.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Agreement, Balance, Fifty

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Agreement, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Agreement, America, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.

  Russ Feingold

  Thinking, Agreement, Would Be

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Agreement, Names

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• The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will never, ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. America first!

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Agreement, America

  "Donald Trump accepts nomination: 'Safety will be restored' - as it happened" by Tom McCarthy, Scott Bixby, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2016.

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