John Stossel Quotes

Commerce is a teacher and a pacificator. It gives mankind knowledge one of another. Reciprocity of trade promotes reciprocity of friendship. Good trade insures good will. … and wherever we secure just and fair commercial relations with other nations, we are sure to have with them friendly political relations.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

I would rather have indissoluble ties of righteous trade promote international friendship than all the compacts ever written in the world.

… we have learned to live securely, in peace and mutual prosperity among our Asian and Pacific neighbors. We will not be cut off from our British and European cultures and traditions or from those economies. On the contrary, the more engaged we are economically and politically with the region around us, the more value and relevance we bring to those old relationships. Far from putting our identity at risk, our relationships with the region will energize it.

In a complex and challenging time, the road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting — yet it ends in danger and decline.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

Trade accords had been a staple of the post-World War II world, providing a mechanism for economic growth, development, and association with friends and allies, and a means of reining in would-be adversaries who otherwise would have little incentive to act with restraint.