Quotes from Flavio Volpe

He said 'I'm going to eat your profits to make a point nobody understands, please vote for me.' And there's a lot of trained seals that listen to him and they clap.

How do you get a bully to back off when their foot is on your neck? Do you plead with them or do you bite the foot?

On President Trump's on actually hurting Mexico with tariffs, "That might be his play, if we can ascribe any sophistication to it. That's a big if, because he may just be insane."

Say what you will about Nero, but at least he was a hell of a fiddler. This guy's burning it all down without a soundtrack."

Some men just like to watch the world burn.

Some of the rest of the world does cheat on those obligations. But the solution isn't for the global trading leader to drop its standards in response. It's a tough spot to be in. But you're there for a reason. It's like Superman getting into a bar fight. Why?

The administration has always had a distorted sense of the national interest because they confuse it with the re-election of a president who would sell it to pay personal debts.

The bold dictate the terms.

The Minister's drive to achieve another vanity trophy paid for by the regular people who work in Canada's auto sector is amazing to watch and I congratulate him on this ignominious achievement.

The White House is a historical BS factory."

There is ideology and populism and then there's sheer madness of sending your country into a recession to prove a point no one understands.

These bandits would tax their own military to buy the votes of morons.

This could not be a worse time to make a dumb move.

Trump chooses to play with the Dow while putting children in cages. Sometimes these decisions don't really hinge on business. Peace always pays, and we have none right now."

Unlike the Houston Astros hitters, nobody hit the garbage bins for us. We had to react to pitches on skill with no warning and we won."

We have to stop pretending that we are dealing with a rational counter-party. You know, these people are caging children at the border.

We're signing a bad deal because we hope to sell more products that grow on four legs," Mr. Volpe said, "[It's] a progressive trade agreement that sells products we've been mastering since Samuel de Champlain."

You can't have protectionism within a free trade agreement. It's an oxymoron."

You don't really play poker with your cards up.

You heard the Premier of Ontario. We might be short in a week. Well, the reinforcements are coming. They're in full gallop.