Foreign Trade Quotes

#1. For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Vladimir Potanin

#2. In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

Mike Johanns

#3. We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Townsend Harris

#4. The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

Adam Smith

#5. Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.

Brian Behlendorf

#6. That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

Adam Smith

#7. Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

Tim Bishop

#8. Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

Tim Bishop

#9. The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices; that neither exportation nor importation can occur if there are no differences in prices to make trade profitable.

Ludwig Von Mises

#10. That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

Lyn Nofziger

#11. No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

David Ricardo

#12. Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

David Brooks

#13. Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Robert Toombs

#14. America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Jo Ann Emerson

#15. 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.

Will Durant

#16. Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.

Stephen Kinzer

#17. foreign investors plowed $124 billion into China in 2013, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, but only $28 billion into India.

Anonymous

#18. Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#19. Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

Pat Buchanan

#20. As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Bobby Ray Inman

#21. Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.

Koki Hirota

#22. He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.

Courtney Milan

#23. I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

King George V

#24. The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

Pankaj Mishra

#25. When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.

Mike Bove

#26. The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.

Kenneth Cranham

#27. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations ... entangling alliances with none

Thomas Jefferson

#28. Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak
to whisk me off to foreign lands
I should not trade it for the richest robes,
nor for the mantle of a king.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#29. While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

Elliott Abrams

#30. I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

Charley Reese

#31. Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.

William Winwood Reade

#32. In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

Marcy Kaptur

#33. There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Emma Thompson

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

Milton Friedman