Daniel W. Drezner Quotes

The people see the layoffs. We must also show them the payoffs of trade.

Let’s export American products, not American jobs.

We want to export our products but not our jobs.

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

My district has a lot of trade-dependent jobs.

Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

The loss of manufacturing jobs is a sign of economic health.

It’s much better than shutting down trade to help people adjust to the effects of trade.

Globalization: We get cheaper running shoes—You lose your job!

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

Free trade is the way to bring jobs and prosperity.

We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.

When a company wants to move to Mexico or another company - or another country and they want to build a nice, beautiful factory and they want to sell their product through our border, no tax, and the people that all got fired, so we end up with unemployment and debt, and they end up with jobs and factories and all of the other things, not going to happen that way. And the way you stop it is by imposing a tax.

Free trade does bring jobs to America.

When someone says, `Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works - but only for a short time....over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.