Judy LaMarsh Quotes

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

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

When trade is at stake it is your last retrenchment; you must defend it, or perish.

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

Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

Demanding reciprocity from our trade partners, and retaliating if we don't get it, doesn't undermine free trade, it defends free trade.

Perhaps the globalization potion is too strong for us today; it should be watered down with some measure of economic nationalism.

Disputes follow trade. That is a fact of life

It is difficult to overcome protectionism when times are bad.

A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

The European conflict shall not be continued by economic war after the military operations have ceased. British policy shall be directed toward promoting free commercial intercourse between all nations …

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.

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

Governments agree to accept the rulings of the World Trade Organization because, on balance, they benefit from a rules-based international trading order, even in a particular ruling impinges on their right to protect national industries.

Most future wars will be conflicts for commerce.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

Can we not now move to getting a more descriptive name other than " free trade ", such as "Canada's massively bigger market place.

No one wants to return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own…. We are committed to the unrestricted defense of national interests.

From Abraham Lincoln in 1860 to Alf Landon in 1936, every Republican Presidential candidate ran on a platform endorsing high protective tariffs.