George W. Bush Quotes

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

International trade is not a zero-sum game.

Trade never balances. It hasn’t since 1776.

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Countries trade with one another for the same reasons that individuals, businesses, and regions do: to exploit their comparative advantages.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

The popular notion is that imports are bad and exports are good.

I would say to every nation on earth, by treaty, your people shall trade freely with us, and ours with you ...

It's not just free trade verses protectionism any longer, you've got the concepts of managed trade and reciprocity, and environmental issues.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

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.

If trade were completely free, production would only take place under the most suitable conditions.

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

Free trade is opposed by most people who call themselves “free traders”.

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

In all free trade agreements there are winners and losers.

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

The benefits of trade diffuse across the economy, but the cost of trade are concentrated.

Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one.

People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.

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.