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NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

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 free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Free Tibet before free trade.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

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.

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.

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

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

I believe in free trade, but I really believe in making great deals for the United States.

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

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

I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free trade, global capitalism, open borders.