Pat Buchanan Quotes

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.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

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 have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

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

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

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 North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

President Obama was right to make enforcement of those trade rules a priority and his creation, today, of a Trade Enforcement Unit is a massive step in the right direction.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

The WTO [World Trade Organization] has been treated for too long like some private priesthood for experts …

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

I think TPP, as we knew it, is gone.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.

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

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

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

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