Mike Rogers Quotes

President Trump ran on protecting U.S. jobs and renegotiating unfair trade policies - those policies strengthen labor laws around the world.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean that they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.

Ohio workers and Ohio manufacturers already know that we are, in fact, in a trade war, and the Chinese have done very well, thank you.

I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

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

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

Unfair foreign trade practices are not isolated acts.

Tariff policy is no longer a question of raising revenue or protecting domestic manufacturing. It is the executive's instrument of foreign policy.

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

Perhaps the globalization potion is too strong for us today; it should be watered down with some measure of economic nationalism.

A protective tariff would be collected only from those whose pride, whose abundance of means, prompts them to spurn manufacturers of our own country ...

To protect our own great industries ... it is necessary to make some sacrifices.

The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor

It has been proved again and again that we cannot, while throwing our markets open to the world, maintain American standards of living and opportunity, and hold our industrial eminence in such unequal competition. There is a luring fallacy in the theory of banished barriers of trade, but preserved American standards require our higher production costs to be reflected in our tariffs on imports.

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