Barry Gardiner Quotes

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

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for long-term economic growth is full participation in the global economy and trading system.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

Free trade is the result of prosperity rather than the cause of prosperity .... Without growth over a long period of time you will not have a political commitment to free trade.

Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

The U.K. wants and needs closer trading partnerships with African nations - and Africa needs much more capital.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

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

Africa needs access to markets.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

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.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

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

Liberalization of trade barriers are essential for long-term global growth.

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

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

Ideas are what power our economy.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

European economists and populations talk too much about redistribution within the member states and across the member states and are talking too little about how to create value in the future—to fortify our position in order to be successful in the future world.

Trade creates jobs.

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

Education equals economic growth.