Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

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

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

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

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

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

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

It's not just free trade verses protectionism any longer, you've got the concepts of managed trade and reciprocity, and environmental issues.

May our exports be so great, and our imports so small, that the balance of trade may be in our favor.

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

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

Belief in the panacea-like qualities of free trade amounts to ‘collective insanity’.

Free trade is good for all countries but not necessarily good for all peoples in all countries.

Free trade is always vulnerable to democratic politics.

Free trade ideas often look great in prospect but less in retrospect.

[N]o real leader can aspire to champion both the logic and the morality of free trade without confronting the practice that undermines both: currency manipulation.

I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump.

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

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.

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

We need fair and free trade.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

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

I don't know that free trade... is good for our country and good for Iowa and Iowa workers.

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