Shigeru Yoshida Quotes

We need fair and free trade.

Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.

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

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

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

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

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

America wins when we trade and export and import.

U.S. trade policy is not just about the relationship between our nation and other countries. It is part of a larger conversation about living wage, consumer protection, job security, and a better quality of life for all Americans.

America's trade policy has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of the American people and the strategic interests of the United States.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.

If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.

Don't make such a big deal out of this trade deficit…. In the United States you cannot find anybody to produce such labor-intensive products and it will be more expensive if you were to import such products from other countries and the regions than China. Only China is in the best position to produce such products, and this is also beneficial to China because this has provided job opportunities to China.

Economic security is a very important part of foreign policy.

National security must include international economics as it became clear that the U. S. economy was powerfully affective by economic policies in dozens of other countries.

It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.

Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.

My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.

I think we have a thriving economic engine between not only the U.S. and Mexico but the U.S. and many, many other countries.

Leaving the E.U. enables the U.K. to be more engaged with the global economy, not just the European economy.