John L. Flannery Quotes

I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.

We've always believed in fair trade.

I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

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

Our trade opens to all the world.

While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

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.

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

The WTO [World Trade Organization] has been treated for too long like some private priesthood for experts …

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

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

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.

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

Trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course, and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles. ...We believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen. That at least is why I oppose protection root and branch, veiled and unveiled, one-sided or reciprocal. I oppose it in any form

[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.

I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.

We need fair and free trade.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.

Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.

We're making a lot of changes at Gap Inc., but as our Social Responsibility Report demonstrates, doing business the right way is still extremely important to us.