Robert Mundell Quotes

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

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

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

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

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else.

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

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

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.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

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.

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

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

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

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

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

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

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

Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding 'heck no!'

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

Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage their own producers.

In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.