Manmohan Singh Quotes

It is difficult to overcome protectionism when times are bad.

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

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.

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

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

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

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.

Protectionism is the fool's gold of American politics.

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.

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

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

Free trade is always vulnerable to democratic politics.

Trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course, and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles. ...We believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen. That at least is why I oppose protection root and branch, veiled and unveiled, one-sided or reciprocal. I oppose it in any form

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.

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

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

Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.

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

Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else.

When someone says, `Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works - but only for a short time....over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.