Janusz Korwin-Mikke Quotes

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

Globalization must be controlled.

We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.

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

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist Customs Union.

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

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

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

Governments should not meddle with these trade issues… if we believe in free markets, then they have to be free

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.

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

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

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

Globalization is very difficult to understand and almost impossible to regulate.

We have quit discussing the tariff, and have turned our attention to getting trade wherever it can be found.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion