Richard Shelby Quotes

Our trade opens to all the world.

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.

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.

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

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

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

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.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

Globally, we need to make sure that markets are open... If we see that there are restrictions on free trade, then simple economic logic will demonstrate that this is not beneficial.

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

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

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.

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.

Our business thrives on free and open global trade.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

America wins when we trade and export and import.