Patty Judge Quotes

We need fair and free trade.

My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.

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

We're the only dinosaurs left who maintain that the myth of "free trade" really exists.

We have not addressed the effects of global economics where we are the only free traders in town.

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

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

I support the view that free trade in goods and services is a win-win situation. I'm not so convinced that free flows of capital without restriction is a win-win situation.

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.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

In order to have the benefits of free trade, you must have full employment in the trading countries.

We could not get NAFTA passed today with the current Congress…. We’ve got to combine trade liberalization with a broad-based sharing of the fruits of our productivity.

There is nothing inconsistent between standing up for free trade and standing up for American workers.

Under a system of free trade every branch of industry did not prosper.

Belief in the panacea-like qualities of free trade amounts to ‘collective insanity’.

Under the guise of trade deals and trade agreements, its [free trade] really been used to keep workers in the world suppressed in terms of their wages or qualities of life.

If we're going to do trade agreements, as we should, we need trade agreements with rules that will lift up all boats, rather than continuing to pull down U.S. food safety standards, U.S. worker wages, environment, all that these job losses and all that this has done to pull down our standards.

Mexico believes in free trade.

If you interview world leaders, everybody will say they are for free trade. But what they mean by it and what they do when they say they are pro free trade, you have to watch and see.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world.

We are in favor of free trade.

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.