Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

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

Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today’s rich countries, when it simply had not been practiced very much before they became rich.

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

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

America has a right to demand that the world’s markets are open to our products …

In 200 years when the United States will get all that it can from protectionism, it too will adopt free trade.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

We have to be vigilant against protectionism and be constantly making the argument for free trade.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

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 establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

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.

These agreements should be free trade. They aren’t free trade.

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

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

Free trade is the result of prosperity rather than the cause of prosperity .... Without growth over a long period of time you will not have a political commitment to free trade.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

We are willing to open markets and cut our subsidies if others will, but we won’t do it alone.

There is nothing inconsistent between standing up for free trade and standing up for American workers.