Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

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

We are willing to open markets and cut our subsidies if others will, but we won’t do it alone.

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.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

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

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

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

Free trade is a two way street.

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

America has a right to demand that the world’s markets are open to our products …

Demanding reciprocity from our trade partners, and retaliating if we don't get it, doesn't undermine free trade, it defends free trade.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today’s rich countries, when it simply had not been practiced very much before they became rich.

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

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

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

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

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

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

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