Henry McNeal Turner Quotes

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.

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

I have long been a vocal advocate of reciprocal free trade though that position did not endear me to my own political party. And I continue to strongly believe in free and fair international trade.

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

When a nation devalues its currency, it, in effect, increases its tariffs.

Tariff policy is no longer a question of raising revenue or protecting domestic manufacturing. It is the executive's instrument of foreign policy.

I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform.

Protect and foster American industries … Democrats are willing to risk our manufacturing interests in the face of the starving hordes of pauper labor in other countries.

Unfettered free trade has been a disaster not only for Americans but for the working people of Mexico and Canada as well.

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

When you liberalize trade, benefits go to capital and away from labor.

Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did somewhere else. In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

Manufacturing value chains are global. Many U.S.-made goods have foreign components. Slapping on tariffs will raise prices and slow imports, but it will make us poorer and impede growth.

Before Trump, trade policy ceded our manufacturing strength to foreign nations.

We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

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.

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.