Urjit Patel Quotes

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

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.

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

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.

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

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Our trade opens to all the world.

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

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

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

National border lines are much easier to draw than economic lines.

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