Roberto Azevedo Quotes

In the long run, trade works for America.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

America wins when we trade and export and import.

Africa needs access to markets.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

[We must] teach the advocates for an open trade the folly as well as degradation of their policy.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.

Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did somewhere else. In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas.

Free trade is the way to bring jobs and prosperity.

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

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.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

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

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.