George W. Bush Quotes

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

We are in favor of free trade.

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

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

I fully support global commerce.

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.

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

Mexico believes in free trade.

We need fair and free trade.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for long-term economic growth is full participation in the global economy and trading system.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.

America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

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