Free Trade Quotes
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Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.
— Ilana Mercer
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.
— John Shadegg
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
— Robert Reich
While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.
— Philip Hammond
Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.
— Li Keqiang
The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump.
— Mike Pence
Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.
— Milton Friedman
The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu
Free Tibet before free trade.
— Zhu Rongji
Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone's interest
— Thomas Piketty
I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
— Martin O'Malley
Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.
— Kent Conrad
Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance.
— Ricardo Salinas Pliego
I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair.
— Margrethe Vestager
Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
— Victor Hugo
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
— Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.
— Ron Paul
It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade ... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade.
— Noam Chomsky
You don't need a treaty to have free trade.
— Murray Rothbard
Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.
— Oscar Arias
Free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.
— Michael Crichton
Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together.
— Ayn Rand
Germany is very free-trade oriented.
— Gerhard Schroder
To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
— Lane Kirkland
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
— George Ayittey
It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
— Philip Hammond
Free trade should not mean free labor.
— Stephen F. Lynch
Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.
— Mark Rutte
Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:
— Amitav Ghosh
The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.
— Alan Greenspan
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.
— Isabel Paterson
I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief ... in free and open trade.
— Nancy Reagan
I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
— Sam Wyly
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.
— Nathaniel Branden
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.
— Robert Kuttner
Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.
— Theresa May
She leaned forward and opened her eyes wide. "Allow me to offer you some free advice - trade your gems away and keep your opinions to yourself.
— Stephen Whitfield
In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.
— Milton Friedman
People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
— Ha-Joon Chang
Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.
— Hugo Chavez
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
— Frederic Bastiat
Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
— Peter Ackroyd
I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
— Carly Fiorina
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
— Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press. — Robert Frost
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press. — Robert Frost
International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception.
— George W. Stocking
The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.
— Charles Koch
Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.
— Faustino Ballve
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
— Lyn Nofziger
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
— Pankaj Mishra
The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.
— Kenneth Rogoff
I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
— Najib Razak
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
— Michael Badnarik
Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
— Stephen F. Lynch
I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.
— Donald Trump
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
— Vijay Mallya
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
— Edmund Burke