Michael Badnarik Quotes

These agreements should be free trade. They aren’t free trade.

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

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

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

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

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

How can you have free trade when you don't even have a free government?

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

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

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

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

If you interview world leaders, everybody will say they are for free trade. But what they mean by it and what they do when they say they are pro free trade, you have to watch and see.

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.

Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

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

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.