Donald Trump Quotes

[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

[Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

[Donald Trump rhetoric]this is a common rhetorical line used by people who are against free trade that say, we're in favor of trade; we just don't like any of the free trade deals that America has actually signed onto.

What you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.

I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.

I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

I support free trade. Donald Trump supports free trade.Trade means jobs. Jobs in the United States, jobs in my home state of Indiana are supported by international exports.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

A liberal economy doesn’t mean opening wide the doors for imports.

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

The arguments for protection are more easily made attractive than those for free trade.

Immediate restrictions must be introduced to drastically reduce imports. We waste millions of dollars on provocative imported commodities, like dog food, nuts, and ice cream.

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

We could not get NAFTA passed today with the current Congress…. We’ve got to combine trade liberalization with a broad-based sharing of the fruits of our productivity.

Free trade is hard to sell politically.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You know, as an example, when you have countries with a big tax and we get nothing for the same product and we're paying - our companies are paying 100 percent tax in some countries and if they send their product to us we pay nothing. Doesn't make sense.

I'm not talking about autarky. I'm not crazy. We need an intelligent protectionism.

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.

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.

We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field.