Donald Trump Quotes

[Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.

[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.

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 arguments for protection are more easily made attractive than those for free trade.

We need some economists to say that [trade] protectionism is not as dangerous as most economists seem to think it is.

Free trade is hard to sell politically.

Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding 'heck no!'

I'm supporting Donald Trump because Donald Trump is against this trade deal, this Trans Pacific Partnership, this job-killing trade deal that is going to bring cheap labor into this country.

I concluded that the trade agreements weren't working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs of Americans, and that both needed to change, and Donald Trump was out there. So I went to his rally.

Nobody is more conservative when it comes to trade than I am.

Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.

I'm not talking about autarky. I'm not crazy. We need an intelligent protectionism.

America is being absolutely devastated with bad trade deals.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

[Donald Trump] basically has said, 'No it's more of a threat than an actual reality.' I do not think we're going to see tariffs put in place, but that would be the worry.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

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

Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.

A liberal economy doesn’t mean opening wide the doors for imports.