Dick Armey Quotes

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

Free trade is not just an economic opportunity, it is a moral imperative:

The benefits of trade diffuse across the economy, but the cost of trade are concentrated.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

All peoples should be assured of equitable access to markets and to essential raw materials.

Liberalization of trade barriers are essential for long-term global growth.

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

American policymakers have a choice to make in trade relations with China. They can side with the importers and outsourcers, and stand by passively as China takes advantage of its WTO membership and access to the U.S. market, abusing its own workers and artificially undervaluing its currency in order to undercut American workers and domestic manufacturers. Or they can take a stand for American jobs and act now to ensure that China plays fair in the global economy.

Free trade is good but not as good as fair trade.

[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 seek to better integrate Brazil into the world... and eliminate unfair trade practices and uncertainty for foreign trade flows.

Our commitment to free trade is also a commitment to fair trade.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

All merchants may enter or leave England unharmed and without fear, and may stay or travel within it, by land or water, for purposes of trade, free from all illegal exactions, in accordance with ancient and lawful customs.

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

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

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

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

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

How can you have free trade when you don't even have a free government?