Mickey Kantor Quotes

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

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.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

The question is therefore not whether there will be globalization but how much and what kind, carried out through what means and according to what rules.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

I fully support global commerce.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

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

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

I would rather have indissoluble ties of righteous trade promote international friendship than all the compacts ever written in the world.

In all free trade agreements there are winners and losers.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

Clear rules for global relations create opportunities and incentives to innovate, invest and work--the critical drivers of economicv progress, History shows that the absense of a durable framework not only squanders untapped potential during good times, but also creates grave risks during turbulant times.

Enforcement is a very important part of the administration strategy. We think that even our friendly nations should live by the rules, and if they don't, we will intend to enforce things against them.

The E.U. is one of our largest trading partners, and any negotiations legally must be conducted at the E.U. level and not with individual nations.

For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.

The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Trade deal negotiations are highly complicated and take a long time.

WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.

Twenty-seven member states cannot even organise a takeaway curry, let alone what they are going to do on free trade deals with the rest of the world.

It's really important for all of us to understand that healthy trade relationships between the U.S. and China are important.