Richard Parks Bland Quotes

Perhaps the globalization potion is too strong for us today; it should be watered down with some measure of economic nationalism.

Nothing has ever been made plainer at a general election than that the controlling principle in the raising of revenue from duties on imports is zealous care for American interests and American labor. The people have declared that such legislation should be had as will give ample protection and encouragement to the industries and the development of our country.

Free trade: certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat; and the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

I think 2017 is going to be the year of the grand return of the nation-state, the control of borders and currencies.

Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Slavery and tariffs. These are the only two issues where, contrary to the general spirit of the republic of the United States, law has assumed the character of plunder. Slavery is a violation, by law, of liberty. The protective tariff is a violation, by law, of property.

Less care for internationalism and more concern for national prosperity!

Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.

I never was a free-trader. I never felt that we could ... do away with all protective devices, because we would have been flooded with imports which would have hurt our economy.

Whence comes this demand for tariff tinkering. Aren't all our fellows happy?

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

No one wants to return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own…. We are committed to the unrestricted defense of national interests.

From Abraham Lincoln in 1860 to Alf Landon in 1936, every Republican Presidential candidate ran on a platform endorsing high protective tariffs.

Protectionism is the fool's gold of American politics.

Until we get a definite national policy decided on in favor of industrial and agricultural protection, and an executive in office prepared to enforce that policy, it is useless to hope for results.

To protect our own great industries ... it is necessary to make some sacrifices.

A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the Government a facile instrument in the hand of private interests;

Tough trade policies make good political fodder back home.

Petitions poured in upon Congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that should encourage the production of needed things at home.