Priti Patel Quotes

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

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

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

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

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

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

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

The arguments for protection are more easily made attractive than those for free trade.

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

It is difficult to overcome protectionism when times are bad.

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

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

We are in favor of free trade.

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.