Ben Rhodes Quotes

The TPP will be good for the American economy, the Vietnamese economy, and the labor and environmental standards that make life better for our people.

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America's relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.

The Asia Pacific region within TPP encompasses nearly 40 percent of the world's GDP. Shaping the rules of the road for trade in this region is good for our workers and businesses - and it is good for our national security as well.

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

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

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

NAFTA has dramatically improved our economy and that of our neighbors as well.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

The countries that stand to benefit most from greater competition and openness are those nations that display the highest protection.

The experience of our unions and our members with past trade agreements has led us to question critically the extravagant claims often made on their behalf. While these agreements are inevitably touted as market-opening agreements that will significantly expand U.S. export opportunities and therefore create export-related U.S. jobs

I think TPP, as we knew it, is gone.

Obama and Kuczynski each promised to do all they could to enact the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

A UK-Australia trade deal won't just be a good thing, it'll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.

Free to set our own laws, Brexit should act as a catalyst for a new era of prosperity for an outward-looking U.K. ambitious in removing barriers to trade, enterprise and economic growth.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.