Gordon Brown Quotes

I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.

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.

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.

I think TPP, as we knew it, is gone.

I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot.

A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.

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

Using the greatest business people in the world, which America has, I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come up strongly in favor of concluding a trade agreement with the United States of America.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Third World nations will recognize [their] debts only so long as they're able to get them rescheduled and have money lent to them.

… international confidence is the foundation stone of international credit, and international credit is essential to international trade.

Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.

I am disappointed that the President made the decision to have Ambassador Froman sign the TPP agreement in New Zealand.

Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.

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

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

There is no precedent of an advanced economy withdrawing from a trade agreement as deep and as complex as the European Union.