Hillary Clinton Quotes

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation much follow him; and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations may by outraged in the process.

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

The countries of the Middle East have been losers in the age of globalization, out of step in an age of free markets, free trade, and democratic politics.

Before the war the trade agreements program was an instrument for defense against the epidemic of destructive and demoralizing trade warfare. Today, with the end of the great holocaust finally within sight, this same instrument is transformed into a powerful device for shaping a better world.

Commerce is the greatest of all political interests.

We have quit discussing the tariff, and have turned our attention to getting trade wherever it can be found.

Free trade is hard to sell politically.

[N]o real leader can aspire to champion both the logic and the morality of free trade without confronting the practice that undermines both: currency manipulation.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

[Donald Trump] will try to renegotiate the trade deals a little bit.

[Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

When Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, she voted for some trade deals when they met her standards, but she voted against others when they didn't.

NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

Take a look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever made by any country having to do with economic development. It's economic un development as far as America is concerned.

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

I think essentially if you look at British public debate around the issues of our interconnectedness with the global economy you do not find a ready audience, of any large scale, for pulling up the shutters.

[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want certainty. They do not want to see a disruption in trade. He's promising to rip up NAFTA, redo NAFTA. He's not going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP trade with Asia.

We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field.

There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.

[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.