Nikki Haley Quotes

War can be done by arms. War can be done by economic means.

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.

The European conflict shall not be continued by economic war after the military operations have ceased. British policy shall be directed toward promoting free commercial intercourse between all nations …

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

We can live without butter, but not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

I believe the Japanese set ceilings on what they will buy from foreign companies.

I lament when I tell you, that neither arms, nor ammunition are provided for those brave men; no, not one musket to six men.... We are destitute of arms and ammunition; they are neither of them to be purchased in the country.

Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

But if there were no other reason why we should never have war, would any sane nation make war on cotton? Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us we could bring the whole world to our feet.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

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

What you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.

[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by the United States itself at the dawn of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later transformed into the World Trade Organisation.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.