William McKinley Quotes

Some of these races, notably those of Asia, are trained by a hundred generations to eat less, wear less, seek less shelter, and work longer hours than any Western race can endure. No Western standards can compete with them in their midst.

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.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Free trade would place our farmers and workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

Globalization causes job and income losses in certain sectors which exact significant psychological tolls. The government, therefore, has a responsibility to channel help from the winners to the losers.

How miserable that man is that Governes a People where six parts of seven at least are Poor, Endebted Discontented and Armed.

Chinese workers making $1000 a year have been helping American designers, marketers, engineers, and retailers making $1000 a week, and up, earn even more.

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

It’s much better than shutting down trade to help people adjust to the effects of trade.

When the economy prospers, but ordinary people do not, it is only a matter of time before there is a social explosion.

I personally do not believe in protection mechanisms. It’s like a false friend. It makes you believe that you can compete, but you can’t compete and as the protection mechanisms fall away—the world is going for this—then you are in trouble.

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

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

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.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

We are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.

Debates about trade inevitably revolve around the question of jobs, even thought trade has little effect of aggregate employment levels.

Transformation in the nature of work tend to brings wrenching social changes in their wake.

Free trade is killing the labor movement.

We have come to the point where a new machine invented in England deprives millions of Chinese workers of their livelihood within a year's time.

Agitators are a set of interfering meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

NAFTA is a deal made for the elites of America, Mexico and Canada leaving out the average people of all three companies.