Standing Quote by William McKinley

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade…

— John Pugsley

I would recommend that tariffs be layered in gradually.

— Scott Bessent

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

— Najib Razak

As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of enforcement officers.…

— Hillary Clinton

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the…

— Bernie Sanders

“The same man,” Roosevelt said, “who tells us that he does not want to see the government interfere with business . . . is the first to…

— Edmund Fawcett

“The same man who tells you that he does not want to see the government interfere in business,” he said, “is the first to…

— Ganesh Sitaraman

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs -…

— Charles Koch

As someone who's built business, I take tariffs and their effects very seriously and would only employ such negotiation tools when absolutely necessary.

— Mike Braun

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

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the…

— H. G. Wells