Ted Yoho Quotes

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.

I don't believe Trump or Cruz are fair traders. I think they are probably both free traders.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

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

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

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

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.

I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.

For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.

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

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

Tariffs are only one tool in enforcing our global trade policy.

Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade.

It's very personal to me that we get these trade deals right.

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.

I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

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

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.