Free Trade Quotes

Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism. — Ilana Mercer

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular. — Thomas B. Macaulay

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment. — John Shadegg

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. — Robert Reich

While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field. — Philip Hammond

Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China. — Li Keqiang

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. — Benjamin Disraeli

I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump. — Mike Pence

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest. — Milton Friedman

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

Free Tibet before free trade. — Zhu Rongji

Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone's interest — Thomas Piketty

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals. — Martin O'Malley

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary. — Kent Conrad

Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance. — Ricardo Salinas Pliego

I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair. — Margrethe Vestager

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy. — Enrique Pena Nieto

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

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish. — Frederic Bastiat

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action. — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade. — Ron Paul

It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade ... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade. — Noam Chomsky

You don't need a treaty to have free trade. — Murray Rothbard

Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough. — Oscar Arias

Free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade. — Michael Crichton

Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. — Ayn Rand

Germany is very free-trade oriented. — Gerhard Schroder

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot. — Lane Kirkland

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came. — George Ayittey

It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running. — Philip Hammond

Free trade should not mean free labor. — Stephen F. Lynch

Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol. — Mark Rutte

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade: — Amitav Ghosh

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets. — Alan Greenspan

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. — Isabel Paterson

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief ... in free and open trade. — Nancy Reagan

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. — Sam Wyly

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. — Nathaniel Branden

Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. — Robert Kuttner

Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress. — Theresa May

She leaned forward and opened her eyes wide. "Allow me to offer you some free advice - trade your gems away and keep your opinions to yourself. — Stephen Whitfield

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment. — Milton Friedman

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation. — P. J. O'Rourke

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will. — Ha-Joon Chang

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. — Hugo Chavez

The profit of the one is the profit of the other. — Frederic Bastiat

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade. — Peter Ackroyd

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar. — Carly Fiorina

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press. — Robert Frost

International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception. — George W. Stocking

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade. — Charles Koch

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer. — Faustino Ballve

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free. — Lyn Nofziger

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped. — Pankaj Mishra

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade. — George Osborne

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect. — Kenneth Rogoff

I'm quite an advocate of free trade. — Najib Razak

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. — Michael Badnarik

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer. — John McCain

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade. — Stephen F. Lynch

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement. — Chris Martin

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals. — Donald Trump

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market. — Vijay Mallya

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. — Edmund Burke

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for. — Deepak Chopra

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. — Stefan Molyneux