Ideology Quote by Scott Bessent

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

— Richard Neal

I think that tariffs in a way can be regarded as an economic sanction without a sanction.

— Scott Bessent

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

— Piyush Goyal

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

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

— Edmund Burke

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.

— Amit Shah

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

— Milton Friedman

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

— Manmohan Singh

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

— Ludwig von Mises

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Stephen Moore