Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

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

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.

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.

Belief in the panacea-like qualities of free trade amounts to ‘collective insanity’.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

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

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

We're the only dinosaurs left who maintain that the myth of "free trade" really exists.

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

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

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

Free trade is hard to sell politically.

Free trade is always vulnerable to democratic politics.

I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.

What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.

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.

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.

We are in favor of free trade.

The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.

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.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.