Charles E. Schumer Quotes

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

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

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

Free trade is hard to sell politically.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

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

In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

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

I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

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.

These agreements should be free trade. They aren’t free trade.

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

I never was a free-trader. I never felt that we could ... do away with all protective devices, because we would have been flooded with imports which would have hurt our economy.

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

In 200 years when the United States will get all that it can from protectionism, it too will adopt free trade.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

There has always been a temptation, at times of economic difficulty, to turn inward and put up the shutters. That is when we need free trade most.

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

Free trade is always vulnerable to democratic politics.

Free trade is opposed by most people who call themselves “free traders”.

Trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course, and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles. ...We believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen. That at least is why I oppose protection root and branch, veiled and unveiled, one-sided or reciprocal. I oppose it in any form

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.