Bill Foster Quotes

Promoting American manufacturing should not be a political issue.

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.

The manufacturing base of the country is the hope of the country.

I believe America should make things.

President Trump has had business leaders at the table. He's listening; he's engaging and making decisions that will help us grow the economy and, ultimately, U.S. manufacturing jobs.

In the U.S., a lot of small manufacturers are pretty good. I don't see any reason why India won't make the same progress in manufacturing as it did in services.

No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.

Everybody talks about Pittsburgh reinventing itself and being successful in the 21st century - well, outside the city limits, it means energy jobs and manufacturing.

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.

The spirit of manufacture has taken deep root among us, and its foundations are laid in too great expense to be abandoned.

Over the last three decades, Mexico has made the transition from a commodity and agricultural-based economy to one dominated by manufacturing and services.

I don't think we can be a great nation unless we can manufacture much of what we consume.

We'll be aggressive on trade because we know that deals that have been made historically have resulted in the great loss of manufacturing jobs, a great amount of closed manufacturing businesses. We don't want that to continue.

The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.