Charles Duhigg Quotes

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

Most American flags are made in China as you know.

Miramar took jobs away from China; usually the jobs leave the U.S. and go to China.

I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.

Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.

To have to claim that … workers were impoverished by globalization … you have to forget that those workers were even poorer before the new exporting jobs became available and ignore the fact that those who do not have access to the global markets are far worse than those who do.

Free trade is killing the labor movement.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

I don't think we should sell out the American worker. That's why I am opposed to NAFTA.

American policymakers have a choice to make in trade relations with China. They can side with the importers and outsourcers, and stand by passively as China takes advantage of its WTO membership and access to the U.S. market, abusing its own workers and artificially undervaluing its currency in order to undercut American workers and domestic manufacturers. Or they can take a stand for American jobs and act now to ensure that China plays fair in the global economy.

The data on worker displacement after NAFTA reads like a funeral program for the middle class.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

Donald Trump outsources his ties to China. He outsourced his furniture to Turkey. I know a company in Ohio that could make that furniture in Archibald, Ohio.

China's continued growth and rising household income are creating opportunities for lower-income economies in low-cost manufacturing.

I've seen the impact of poorly negotiated trade agreements on manufacturing in Maine.

Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

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.

These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.