Fred Thompson Quotes

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.

If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

America wins when we trade and export and import.

Free trade is the way to bring jobs and prosperity.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

The idea that free trade encourages global economic growth by enhancing productivity is taken as an article of faith by the three major schools of international political economy: liberalism, Marxism, and mercantilism

The whole experience of the last 20 years of government trading in commodities, credit and shipping has demonstrated that it is alive with international friction and threats to peace …. The long view should be to restore international trade to free enterprise.

In order to have the benefits of free trade, you must have full employment in the trading countries.

We are the greatest trading country in the world because we have the greatest exportation of the growth and product of our land and of the manufacture and labor of our people; and the greatest importation and consumption of the growth, product, and manufactures of other countries from abroad, of any nation in the world.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

Trade never balances. It hasn’t since 1776.

Will the shutting out of foreign goods increase the total amount of wealth in this country? Can foreign nations grow rich at our expense by selling us goods under cost price? Can a people tax themselves into prosperity? Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle?

Trade creates jobs.