Lyn Nofziger Quotes

I have long been a vocal advocate of reciprocal free trade though that position did not endear me to my own political party. And I continue to strongly believe in free and fair international trade.

Unfair foreign trade practices are not isolated acts.

Free trade is not just an economic opportunity, it is a moral imperative:

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

All the U.S. is asking for is free, fair trade.

I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

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.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

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.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

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

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

The popular notion is that imports are bad and exports are good.

Demanding reciprocity from our trade partners, and retaliating if we don't get it, doesn't undermine free trade, it defends free trade.

There has always been a temptation, at times of economic difficulty, to turn inward and put up the shutters. That is when we need free trade most.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

We are willing to open markets and cut our subsidies if others will, but we won’t do it alone.

There is nothing inconsistent between standing up for free trade and standing up for American workers.