Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

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

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

No nation, rich or poor, democratic or authoritarian, can escape the fundamental economic imperatives of the global market. No nation can escape its discipline. No nation can avoid its responsibility to do its part

We're the only dinosaurs left who maintain that the myth of "free trade" really exists.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

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

Globalization has very materially improved the standard of living in the Unitied States... as it has for those countries that have chosen to operate with free trade…. Although none of us likes our competitors, competition has greatly improved our standard of living.

Free trade: certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat; and the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

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

Economic aggression can have no other offspring than war. It is dangerous as it is futile.

Free trade is good for all countries but not necessarily good for all peoples in all countries.

Free trade is always vulnerable to democratic politics.

[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.

A trade war between the U.S. and China would hurt both countries, but there is reason to believe that the U.S. has more to lose. Today, 80% of global trade comprises international supply chains,” she writes. “Declining trade costs have allowed firms to splinter their production lines geographically, with goods processed and value added in multiple countries along the chain. If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the U.S….

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

The populists always fail in their own terms. Let me be more specific, the protectionists always fail. They always end up delivering the sharpest fall in living standards to the people who are their biggest supporters.

To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.