Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists…

The populists always fail in their own terms. Let me be more specific, the protectionists always fail. They always end up delivering the sharpest…

— Daniel Hannan

We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if…

— Lawrence Lessig

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

— William M. Daley

In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home.…

— Murray Rothbard

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of…

— George W. Bush

As a logistics entrepreneur who has created hundreds of American jobs, I will make sure the National Highway bill improves our infrastructure, while ensuring…

— Mike Braun

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

— Pat Buchanan

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

— Kent Conrad

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international…

— Greg Mankiw

If you look at the American Jobs Plan, there is a real focus on a multiyear public investment plan designed to get at those…

— Brian Deese

The stealing of American research, of course, ultimately takes American jobs.

— Morgan Ortagus

Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

— Corrine Brown

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs…

— Byron Dorgan

We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around. The best…

— Mitt Romney

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs…

— Jay Leno