Mirko Lauer Quotes

No one wants to return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own…. We are committed to the unrestricted defense of national interests.

Tough trade policies make good political fodder back home.

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.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

Less care for internationalism and more concern for national prosperity!

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.

Protectionism is the fool's gold of American politics.

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

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.

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.

It is difficult to overcome protectionism when times are bad.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

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.

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

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.

A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

… what is called free trade, foolishly by some and wickedly by others.