David Brancaccio Quotes

There is no way out of playing by the rules of the international economy if you wish to be a part of it.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

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 …

We're part of a global economy whether we like it or not.

No nation can control its own destiny. They are played off against each other in the global economy.

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

We have not addressed the effects of global economics where we are the only free traders in town.

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

I fully support global commerce.

I have long been a vocal advocate of reciprocal free trade though that position did not endear me to my own political party. And I continue to strongly believe in free and fair international trade.

Globalization must be controlled.

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down.

Of what do we complain? A total incapacity, produced by the foreign policy, to purchase, at any price, necessary foreign objects of consumption.

A global economy is a fact of life .... No politician can promise to protect you from it.

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

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.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

Trade never balances. It hasn’t since 1776.

When you export unprocessed goods, in simple words, you are exporting jobs, taxes, and other key economic opportunities... it is high time we stopped this outdated trade system.

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.

[N]o real leader can aspire to champion both the logic and the morality of free trade without confronting the practice that undermines both: currency manipulation.

I think 2017 is going to be the year of the grand return of the nation-state, the control of borders and currencies.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.

I think it is important that we should be on the side of keeping borders open with respect to trade and movement of factors of production.