#trade

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#does #evidenced #fair #fair trade #free

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#digging #experience #far #find #given

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#agreement #alleviate #america #central #consequences

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#agreements #commerce #defense #democracy #department

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#certainly #gain #i #liberalisation #open

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#bill #bill gates #billions #college #companies

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. ↗

— Chris Martin

#become #benefit #bled #countries #dry

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here. ↗

— Chris Martin

#anyone #beach #because #care #environment

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ↗

— George Mason

#disgraceful #itself #mankind #slaves #states

When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. ↗

— Eric Massa

#america #bill #cap-and-trade #ceremony #chief