Bill Frist Quotes

If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.

We are the world's biggest importer. We need to treat the other countries as good suppliers.

If you trade with someone and they are your biggest trading partner, it is impossible you don't have trade issues.

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

The WTO [World Trade Organization] has been treated for too long like some private priesthood for experts …

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.

Take the creation of the Pacific partnership or the creation of the Atlantic partnership. We are somewhat concerned because this is being done bypassing the World Trade Organisation, since it has proved impossible to reach compromise solutions with developing economies within the framework of that organisation. Is that good? Not really, in my opinion.

I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

Governments agree to accept the rulings of the World Trade Organization because, on balance, they benefit from a rules-based international trading order, even in a particular ruling impinges on their right to protect national industries.

Wealthy nations cannot grow richer unless they have customers beyond their border.

The Board of Trade consists of a committee of the Privy Council, composed of all the great officers of state. The business is principally conducted by the president, deputy president, and the chief of the clerks. It is, properly speaking, a board of reference, to which all difficult or doubtful cases relative to trade or our colonial possessions, exclusive of the East Indies, are referred

I opposed the World Trade Organization.

We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.