Glenn Hubbard Quotes

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.

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.

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.

I think we've been able to establish good relationships with people on President Trump's team, and that gives us an opportunity to do better than what most people expect in terms of the relationship. And we are working towards that on many fronts, particularly on trade.

Trade and investment have come to be the foundation, the ballast, of the U.S.-China relationship, providing great stability.

I don't know how to handle all the trade talks.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

Economic security is a very important part of foreign policy.

Of what do we complain? A total incapacity, produced by the foreign policy, to purchase, at any price, necessary foreign objects of consumption.

We can’t influence other countries’ decisions if we send them a message that we’re backing away from trade.

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

Our nation has moved from the cold war to the trade war.

used as oil to smooth the troubled water of our aggressive commercial policy

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.

Trade accords had been a staple of the post-World War II world, providing a mechanism for economic growth, development, and association with friends and allies, and a means of reining in would-be adversaries who otherwise would have little incentive to act with restraint.

No good libertarian I know wants us to completely isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. It's not even possible. I mean there are economic ties - there are trade routes that need to be secured. You know international trade can't happen if you don't have open oceans.

America's trade policy has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of the American people and the strategic interests of the United States.

It's really important for all of us to understand that healthy trade relationships between the U.S. and China are important.

The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.