Quotes About Policy

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.

Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.

There is no one trade agreement in the world that has country-specific content. It doesn't exist. Content has to be measured regionally.

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don't support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Tariffs are only one tool in enforcing our global trade policy.

I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.

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.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.