Gerald McEntee Quotes

In general the principle of the World Trade Organization … is that sovereignty and democratic rights have to be subordinated to the rights of investors

We saw that the free market economy was not enough when the Harvard boys failed to deliver free market capitalism to Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

Governments should not meddle with these trade issues… if we believe in free markets, then they have to be free

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

The global economy shall not run without the consent of the workers….We demand fair trade, not free trade.

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

Under a system of free trade every branch of industry did not prosper.

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher put the brakes on government planning and ushered in a new free-market supply-side era and a two-decade boom. That model has been abandoned in the new century. This must be reversed.

In its original version, the FTAA was meant to be a special carve-out for Washington and Wall Street as global 'free trade' advanced under the umbrella of the Doha round of the WTO.

The industrial world enjoys a rare combination of growth and low inflation; the 'Washington consensus,' a model of economic development that emphasizes macroeconomic discipline and open markets, is being adopted by more countries.

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

Capitalism is in crisis.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

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

Free trade would place our farmers and workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.

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.