Trade Quotes

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

Free Tibet before free trade.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Every man lives by exchanging.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

Walk long enough and we all trade places.

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.

Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

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

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

I ain't racist but lets trade places.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.

I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

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.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.

Trade is good for the economy. Trade creates growth. The problem is that it creates growth but it does not think about distribution of the benefits of that growth.

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.