To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot. — Lane Kirkland Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
“Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!” — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create. — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
“Not only does free trade have nothing to do with democracy, but in most cases throughout history the two have been inimical.… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development,… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The case for open markets, free trade, private investment and technology has never been stronger in development. Over the decades, this combination… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Huzzah! Free Trade and Sailors' Rights! But instead American ships are captured and sailors impressed by the thousands into the British Navy,… — Bert J. Hubinger Copy Share Image
“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Professor Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and former Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, goes public… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state. ... I am in favor of the unilateral reduction of tariffs, but… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One… — Elaine Bernard Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image