Bob Ney Quotes

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

Free trade ideas often look great in prospect but less in retrospect.

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

If you interview world leaders, everybody will say they are for free trade. But what they mean by it and what they do when they say they are pro free trade, you have to watch and see.

The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.

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

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

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.

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

May our exports be so great, and our imports so small, that the balance of trade may be in our favor.

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

Free trade is good for all countries but not necessarily good for all peoples in all countries.

In all free trade agreements there are winners and losers.

I do not believe that we are under any obligation whatsoever to the Filipino people to open our markets..

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

In Illinois, we've seen job losses from agreements like CAFTA and NAFTA. Those agreements didn't help American workers - and they haven't brought improvements to the lives of workers in other countries, either.

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.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

What you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.

Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

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

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

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