Kevin Brady Quotes

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

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.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

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.

Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

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

Manufacturing value chains are global. Many U.S.-made goods have foreign components. Slapping on tariffs will raise prices and slow imports, but it will make us poorer and impede growth.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

Our trade opens to all the world.

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

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

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

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

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.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

The people see the layoffs. We must also show them the payoffs of trade.

Let’s export American products, not American jobs.

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

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.