Frans Timmermans Quotes

Perhaps the globalization potion is too strong for us today; it should be watered down with some measure of economic nationalism.

No one wants to return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own…. We are committed to the unrestricted defense of national interests.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.

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

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no international trade, but it will be nothing like the conveyer belt from China to Wal-Mart that we've known the last few decades. And the prospects for conflict are very, very high.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

A global economy is a fact of life .... No politician can promise to protect you from it.

[We must] teach the advocates for an open trade the folly as well as degradation of their policy.

Unless we Americans are willing to go on indefinitely, merely to provide loot for Europe, we should personally see to it that a man is elected as President this year whose guiding motto is, "America First.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.

Enforcing trade deals is spot on. Acting in the interest of American workers is correct. But large-scale tariffs are a terrible idea.

Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.

Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.

It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

As the Bank of England has noted, Brexit is a unique experiment in the reimposition of protectionist barriers to trade.

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.