Top 40 Protectionism Quotes

In this post, you will find great Protectionism Quotes from famous people, such as Elaine Chao, Heather Mac Donald, Christian Lous Lange, Brian Behlendorf, Guy Verhofstadt. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

Consider trade protectionism. It’s been tried – and found wanting – since the Great Depression.

Elaine Chao

Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.

Heather Mac Donald

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

Christian Lous Lange

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

We don’t want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

Guy Verhofstadt

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

With the election of Trump, America’s soft power has taken a big hit. The United States has moved from a position of leadership in the creation of a rules-based international system to a position of leadership in its destruction and the creation of a regime of global protectionism. The damage will be long-lasting.

Joseph Stiglitz

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

Juan Manuel Santos

The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism – otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group – otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.

Adam Curtis

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

I don’t want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don’t mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.

Asa Hutchinson

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

Juan Manuel Santos

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

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

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

Sushma Swaraj

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

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

Frans Timmermans

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

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

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

If Trump wants to appeal to protectionism, the president should be protecting Americans from global warming and the accompanying extreme weather that’s becoming more common.

Deb Haaland

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

Jose Manuel Barroso

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

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

Sushma Swaraj

Brian Behlendorf

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

Alan Greenspan

We don’t want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

Guy Verhofstadt

Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they always understood that trade policy was merely a tool for building a strong and independent country with a prosperous middle class.

Robert Lighthizer

The biggest flaw in the Trump economic plan is the tilt toward protectionism. I have parted company with him on this. The question here is whether his campaign bark will turn out to be bigger than his government-policy bite.

Lawrence Kudlow

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

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

Andrew Scheer

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandab

Manmohan Singh

I don’t want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don’t mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.

Asa Hutchinson

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

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

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

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

Frans Timmermans

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

Christian Lous Lange

If Trump wants to appeal to protectionism, the president should be protecting Americans from global warming and the accompanying extreme weather that’s becoming more common.

Deb Haaland

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

Jose Manuel Barroso

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Ludwig von Mises