Alan Greenspan Quotes

Our trade opens to all the world.

The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor

Most American flags are made in China as you know.

If a foreign country can make a good cheaper than we can better buy it from them.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

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

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

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.

As a Main Street entrepreneur, I believe in free trade.

I think it's really important that we have a level playing field for global trade.

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.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.

We are in favor of free trade.

Our business thrives on free and open global trade.

While free trade purists have always rejected regional and plurilateral trading arrangements, the WTO's charter chose to be pragmatic and regarded RTAs and FTAs as building blocks of, rather than barriers to, the multilateral trading system.

It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.

Hoosiers have seen good paying jobs leave our state for decades because of NAFTA and other bad trade deals from Washington. President Trump is using tariffs as a negotiating tool to fix these problems that have been baked into the international economy for decades.

What you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.