Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

The effect of Bill Clinton's NAFTA and Hillary Clinton's Colombian Free Trade Agreement has been devastating to Michigan and most of the rest of the country, and accounts for the appeal of Donald Trump.

I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump.

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

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.

The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.

Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.

I've come around to thinking that having Donald Trump in the White House would be wonderful. Even if he isn't able to achieve very much. Now, daddy's gonna build the wall, daddy's gonna fix trade. That's going to happen.

Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'

The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.

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.

Trump's anti-China trade demagoguery may work in firing up his base, but it does a disservice to the truth.

Trade is part of our national security.

President Donald Trump has made it very clear he wants to move Canadian jobs to the United States. There's no reason why Justin Trudeau should be helping him.

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

It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.

By June 2016, candidate Donald Trump had already outlined his seven-point plan on trade, and once in the White House, he kept his word.

The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

I support giving President Obama the ability to negotiate and complete new trade agreements with some of the fastest-growing economies in the world.

Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade.

In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.

The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

We have to be vigilant against protectionism and be constantly making the argument for free trade.