Quotes About Economy

People have looked at all sorts of effects of globalization and blamed trade. But it's lots of things.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

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.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

Free trade is the way to bring jobs and prosperity.

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.

It's very personal to me that we get these trade deals right.

The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

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.

Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up.

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.

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

Our trade opens to all the world.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

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.