Building Quote by Robert Lighthizer

Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade…

— Walter Block

Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade.

— Robert Lighthizer

Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade…

— Danny K. Davis

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most…

— Alan Greenspan

To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest,…

— Russell Kirk

“free trade economists have argued that the mere co-existence of protectionism and economic development does not prove that the former caused the latter. This…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened…

— Anonymous

Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.

— Heather Mac Donald

The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it seems incredible…

— Matt Ridley

“The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and…

— Barack Obama

Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed would plow…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

— William M. Daley