Vladimir Bukovsky Quotes

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

There is no way out of playing by the rules of the international economy if you wish to be a part of it.

It is easy to observe, that all calculations concerning the balance of trade are founded on very uncertain facts and suppositions.

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

Without international economics getting done, foreign policy doesn’t get done.

The benefits of trade diffuse across the economy, but the cost of trade are concentrated.

People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

One by one, trade and investment barriers will continue to be swept away by globalization, like leaves on an autumn day…The new challenge will be less to regulate relations among national economies, than to establish the rules and structures of a transnational economy.

International trade is not a zero-sum game.

Free trade is a two way street.