George W. Bush Quotes

NAFTA has dramatically improved our economy and that of our neighbors as well.

These agreements should be free trade. They aren’t free trade.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

We have quit discussing the tariff, and have turned our attention to getting trade wherever it can be found.

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.

The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it seems incredible that anybody ever thinks otherwise. There is not a single example of a country opening its borders to trade and ending up poorer.

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

Liberalization of trade barriers are essential for long-term global growth.

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

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

The countries that stand to benefit most from greater competition and openness are those nations that display the highest protection.

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

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

A vicious circle of increasing emigration resulting in a smaller domestic market depleted of initiative and skill, and a reduced incentive … to undertake and organize the productive enterprises which alone can provide increased employment opportunities and higher living standards…. Protectionism, both in agriculture and industry would have to give way to active participation in a free-trading world.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

Mexico's government has made a strong commitment to boosting the country's competitiveness in global trade, and the Ministry of Economy recognizes that trade facilitation is a key element in achieving this objective.

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

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.