Quotes About Protectionism

#1. But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Wim Wenders

#2. Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

Manmohan Singh

#3. Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Edward Heath

#4. Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Alan Greenspan

#5. Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.

Gerald Celente

#6. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.

Ralph Raico

#8. But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand' ... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?

Ilana Mercer

#9. A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#10. Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#11. Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.

Walter Block

#12. Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.

Brian Behlendorf

#13. Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Alan Greenspan

#14. It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Christian Lous Lange

#15. Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#16. If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

Azim Premji

#17. The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

Robert Mundell

#18. We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

Guy Verhofstadt

#19. narrow-minded protectionism,

Ethan Ang

#20. Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room: Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.

Xi Jinping

#21. If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#22. Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#23. Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#24. Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Christian Lous Lange

#25. Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Karl Hess

#26. Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

Christine Lagarde

#27. Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone's interest

Thomas Piketty

#28. Turning the safety argument on its head, we now propose that what women need in order to maximize their access to public space as citizens is not greater surveillance or protectionism (however well meaning), but the right to take risks.

Shilpa Phadke

#29. We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

Stephen Harper

#30. Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

Manmohan Singh

#31. The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.

Tyler Cowen

#32. The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

Gideon Haigh

#33. Economic crises breed war.

Alex Callinicos

#34. Wherever autocratic power vanished at an early date - as in the Netherlands and later in England - and the protective interest receded into the background, they swiftly discovered that trade must be free - free to the nethermost recesses of hell.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#35. Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving them of responsibility for their own (allegedly self-injurious) actions and calling the intervention treatment.

Thomas Szasz