Sushma Swaraj Quotes

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

I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

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

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

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

I don't believe Trump or Cruz are fair traders. I think they are probably both free traders.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade.

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

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

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

Immediate restrictions must be introduced to drastically reduce imports. We waste millions of dollars on provocative imported commodities, like dog food, nuts, and ice cream.

There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports.

We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.

Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

It's very personal to me that we get these trade deals right.

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

What you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.