Kevin de Leon Quotes

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

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

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

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

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

Free trade is good but not as good as fair trade.

I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

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

We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field.

Our commitment to free trade is also a commitment to fair trade.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

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.

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

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Demanding reciprocity from our trade partners, and retaliating if we don't get it, doesn't undermine free trade, it defends free trade.

I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.

For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.

We need fair and free trade.

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

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

We have to be vigilant against protectionism and be constantly making the argument for free trade.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

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

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.