Unregulated Trade Quotes

We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.

Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.

The problem is that the global arms trade is entirely free of international regulation. In a world in which the flow of consumer goods is governed by a plethora of international conventions and regulations, deadly weapons have an uncanny knack of slipping through the net.

You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.

Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atrocious.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.

The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.