Eduardo Duhalde Quotes

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

Less care for internationalism and more concern for national prosperity!

The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

Protectionism is the fool's gold of American politics.

We need some economists to say that [trade] protectionism is not as dangerous as most economists seem to think it is.

To protect our own great industries ... it is necessary to make some sacrifices.

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.

I know of but one principle to make a nation great … Protectionism and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the road that all great nations have trod.

If we do not counter the argument that most radical nationlists use, which is, 'To protect is to be protectionist,' if we don't counter that argument, all of our economies will suffer.

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

I'm not talking about autarky. I'm not crazy. We need an intelligent protectionism.

I think it's a message of economic nationalism. It's obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it's never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

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.

I never was a free-trader. I never felt that we could ... do away with all protective devices, because we would have been flooded with imports which would have hurt our economy.

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

The arguments for protection are more easily made attractive than those for free trade.

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

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.

Protectionism is a monster ... the essence of human injustice. It is the acme of human selfishness. It is one of the relics of barbarism.

[We must] teach the advocates for an open trade the folly as well as degradation of their policy.