Adam Quote by Milton Friedman

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

Average tariffs between rich countries are only 3 per cent. But developing countries face tariffs of more than 300 per cent in the EU…

— Hilary Benn

We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You know, as…

— Donald Trump

We have the greatest negotiators in the world, we have the greatest business people in the world, we don't use them. We use political…

— Donald Trump

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

— Hillary Clinton

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the…

— Thomas Sowell

We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American…

— Lindsey Graham

“According to our estimates, the optimal top tax rate in the developed countries is probably above 80 percent.50 Do not be misled by the…

— Thomas Piketty

“Opening borders to labor would boost wealth by much more–one thousand times more. In numbers: $65,000,000,000,000. In words: sixty-five trillion dollars.”

— Rutger Bregman

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500…

— Jennifer Granholm

The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.

— Stephen Moore

For too long, the conventional wisdom has rejected the use of tariffs as a tool of both economic and foreign policy. However, like Alexander…

— Scott Bessent