James G. Blaine Quotes

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

I hope every good citizen will never again purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference in price what it may.

India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies.

Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.

If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.

From Abraham Lincoln in 1860 to Alf Landon in 1936, every Republican Presidential candidate ran on a platform endorsing high protective tariffs.

Protectionism is the fool's gold of American politics.

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

A protective tariff would be collected only from those whose pride, whose abundance of means, prompts them to spurn manufacturers of our own country ...

Protection to American Industry

Protect and foster American industries … Democrats are willing to risk our manufacturing interests in the face of the starving hordes of pauper labor in other countries.

Petitions poured in upon Congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that should encourage the production of needed things at home.

Those who whine incessantly and maintain the romantic notion of a self-contained market speak against the interests of American workers and a growing standard of living. They are trafficking in fear and promoting ignorance while advancing their own political ambitions. No great nation has ever increased its worth over time by closing its markets. In fact, history is replete with examples of closed markets leading to destructive economic consequences.

The thing that we have to worry about is this protectionist movement that has reared its head again in this country

For the past quarter of a century, the predominant idea, which has successfully asserted itself at the polls and shaped the course of the government, has been to preserve the home market for the home industries. The employer and the workman have alike been taught to look at the various economical measures proposed from this point of view, to regard with hostility any step favoring the intrusion of the foreign producer upon their own domain, and rather to demand increasingly rigorous measures of exclusion than to acquiesce in any loosening of the chain that binds the consumer to them.

We will encourage our countrymen to stay at home, work hard, and make a respectable living at home.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

We're going to bring our jobs back home.

The biggest flaw in the Trump economic plan is the tilt toward protectionism. I have parted company with him on this. The question here is whether his campaign bark will turn out to be bigger than his government-policy bite.

I'm for making sure Americans get jobs before other people do, and I'm not going to let jobs get outsourced overseas, like Romney let happen.

President Trump ran on protecting U.S. jobs and renegotiating unfair trade policies - those policies strengthen labor laws around the world.

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.