Henry Paulson Quotes

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Debates about trade inevitably revolve around the question of jobs, even thought trade has little effect of aggregate employment levels.

The prosperity created at home and overseas by free expansion [of foreign trade] was infinitely greater than could be coaxed by restrictive mercantilism.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

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.

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

The people see the layoffs. We must also show them the payoffs of trade.

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

Free trade is the result of prosperity rather than the cause of prosperity .... Without growth over a long period of time you will not have a political commitment to free trade.

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

Let’s export American products, not American jobs.

In the long run, trade works for America.

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

Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today’s rich countries, when it simply had not been practiced very much before they became rich.

We want to export our products but not our jobs.

The United States is the least protectionist country in the world but has the largest trade deficit, while other countries are highly protectionist and have huge trade surpluses. This cannot continue.

For our part, the U.S. government has an obligation to aggressively pursue every opportunity to expand trade, boost the economy, and create well-paid jobs here at home.

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.