George W. Bush Quotes

Our nation has moved from the cold war to the trade war.

Were our narrow and malignant politics [protectionism] to meet with success, we should reduce all our neighboring nations to the same state of sloth and ignorance that prevails in Morocco and the coast of Barbary.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

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

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.

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

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 …

China must voluntarily cut back on exports to America otherwise American politics will become unmanageable.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

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

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

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

No good libertarian I know wants us to completely isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. It's not even possible. I mean there are economic ties - there are trade routes that need to be secured. You know international trade can't happen if you don't have open oceans.

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

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

Our trade opens to all the world.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

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.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.