Erin O'Toole Quotes

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

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

I agree with President Trump that our trade deals need to be renegotiated so they are more fair to American workers.

China must voluntarily cut back on exports to America otherwise American politics will become unmanageable.

Enforcing trade deals is spot on. Acting in the interest of American workers is correct. But large-scale tariffs are a terrible idea.

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

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

[Donald Trump rhetoric]this is a common rhetorical line used by people who are against free trade that say, we're in favor of trade; we just don't like any of the free trade deals that America has actually signed onto.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

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 time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

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.

A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

I believe the Japanese set ceilings on what they will buy from foreign companies.

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

Our nation has moved from the cold war to the trade war.

We're the only dinosaurs left who maintain that the myth of "free trade" really exists.

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