Max Baucus Quotes

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

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.

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

We always saw TPP as something that we want to be part of. In the beginning, we were not part of TPP, neither Canada or Mexico. So when we finally joined the negotiations, to us it was an opportunity.

Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.

If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.

I think it is a mistake to withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership because if America abandons the Asia Pacific markets, we'll lose.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

No good libertarian I know wants us to completely isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. It's not even possible. I mean there are economic ties - there are trade routes that need to be secured. You know international trade can't happen if you don't have open oceans.

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

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America's relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

Our trade opens to all the world.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.