Ronald Reagan Quotes

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

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

Globalization punctures borders.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

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

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

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

The Pacific Alliance is an initiative to align our economies.

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.