British Monopolies and Mergers Commission Quotes

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.

The average standard of living of the average American is going to go down. That is the only way we can cope with our debt and trade deficit problems.

The popular notion is that imports are bad and exports are good.

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

Trade, in and of itself, is not going to solve all the world’s evils.

Unfortunately, we have lost our manufacturing capacity.

The effect of international free trade, aided by the facilities of the credit system, … is to centralize wealth in a few large cities, such as New York, Paris and London; and of social free trade to aggregate wealth in a few hands in those cities…. But the worst effect of free trade is, that it begets centers of opinion, thought and fashions, robs men of their nationality, and impairs their patriotism by teaching them to ape foreign manners, affect foreign dress and opinions, and despise what is domestic

If a foreign country can make a good cheaper than we can better buy it from them.

Free trade is hard to sell politically.

In a complex and challenging time, the road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting — yet it ends in danger and decline.

Most of our [economic] problems are of our own making.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

We seek to better integrate Brazil into the world... and eliminate unfair trade practices and uncertainty for foreign trade flows.

Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one's ability to realize one's dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.

Everybody who stands against Donald Trump are the people who have been running the country into the ground, who have been controlling the levers of power. They're the people who are responsible for our open borders, for our shrinking middle class, for our terrible trade deals.

Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.'

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.