Robert Mosbacher Quotes

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

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.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

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

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

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

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

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.

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

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

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

America has a right to demand that the world’s markets are open to our products …

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

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

There is nothing inconsistent between standing up for free trade and standing up for American workers.

Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

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.

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.

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

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

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