Box Quote by Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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,…

— Mark McKinnon

I would recommend that tariffs be layered in gradually.

— Scott Bessent

The truth is that tariffs have a long and storied history as both a revenue-raising tool and a way of protecting strategically important industries…

— Scott Bessent

One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But…

— Roberto Azevedo

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

— Victor Hugo

“Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!”

— James Clavell

[Donald Trump] basically has said, 'No it's more of a threat than an actual reality.' I do not think we're going to see tariffs…

— Maria Bartiromo

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

— Gwen Ifill

[Companies] are not going to be leaving, go to another country, make the product, sell it into the United States, and all we end…

— Donald Trump

This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we…

— Karen Mills

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think…

— Newt Gingrich

America would have a disaster on trade, and America will have a disaster with open borders.

— Donald Trump