Quotes About Trade

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, "Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

I support free trade. Donald Trump supports free trade.Trade means jobs. Jobs in the United States, jobs in my home state of Indiana are supported by international exports.

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.