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Quotes About Trade

I tell foreign companies that come here... 'Don't see Turkey as a country of 770,000 sq km and $800bn gross domestic product. This country has the potential to do so much business in the surrounding countries.'
~ Husnu Ozyegin
The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.
~ Martin Feldstein
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
~ George Canning
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.
~ Richard Engel
A China that trades extensively with the U.S. and its Asian neighbors will think twice before it pursues any policy that would place those relationships at risk. Likewise, trade between India and Pakistan could contribute to the normalization of ties between these long-estranged neighbors.
~ Richard N. Haass
China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.
~ George Osborne
Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
~ Samuel Johnson
Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.
~ Sherrod Brown
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
~ Jane Jacobs
A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.
~ Janice Hahn
When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.
~ John Barrasso
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
~ John Locke
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.
~ John Stossel
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.
~ Mike Rogers
Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.
~ Nancy Pelosi
When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.
~ Nancy Pfotenhauer
You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
~ Ned Vizzini
As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.
~ Newt Gingrich
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
~ Nikki Cox
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
~ Henry George
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
~ Karl Liebknecht
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
~ Thomas Friedman
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
~ John Shebbeare
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.
~ Myles Standish