Quotes About Commerce

Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

Louisiana is a trade powerhouse.

We will trade freely with free nations and not spend our time chasing trade deals with predatory countries like communist China.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.

We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world.

We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.

Capitalism can't exist without demand.

There is no room for politics in the Commerce Department.

Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

A market—any market—requires that government make and enforce the rules of the game. In most modern democracies, such rules emanate from legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts. Government doesn't "intrude" on the "free market." It creates the market. The

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

The Entity is pure business and nothing else.