Peter Mandelson Quotes

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

We are in favor of free trade.

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

Trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course, and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles. ...We believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen. That at least is why I oppose protection root and branch, veiled and unveiled, one-sided or reciprocal. I oppose it in any form

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

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

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

The idea that free trade encourages global economic growth by enhancing productivity is taken as an article of faith by the three major schools of international political economy: liberalism, Marxism, and mercantilism

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

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

Globalization has very materially improved the standard of living in the Unitied States... as it has for those countries that have chosen to operate with free trade…. Although none of us likes our competitors, competition has greatly improved our standard of living.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

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.

We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world.

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

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.

Our trade opens to all the world.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

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.

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.