Top 1200 Foreign Trade Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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I have been told by people close to Trump that "Brexit Britain" is the only foreign policy issue that interests him, because he thinks the UK referendum paved the way for him. He hopes to help Britain leave the EU, and possibly to damage the EU, by offering a trade deal.

I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

That's a great trade. I'd trade myself for Kevin Garnett.

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

Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.

So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty? Or happiness for beauty? Could a gorgeous person with a mean streak be a worthy trade? And if you did make the trade, decide you'd take that beautiful swan and hope it wouldn't turn on you, what would you do if it did?

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

We're at the start of the process of talking about a trade deal. We're both very clear that we want a trade deal. It will be in the interests of the UK from my point of view, that's what I'm going to be taking in, into the trade discussions that take place in due course. Obviously [Donald Trump] will have the interests of the US. I believe we can come to an agreement that is in the interests of both.

We will trade freely with free nations and not spend our time chasing trade deals with predatory countries like communist China.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

A trade is a trade, but it's different as far as summertime versus in the season.

If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Donald Trump doesn't release his tax returns and is indebted to foreign banks and foreign lenders.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter. If I were the media, I would be wary of using anything that came out of these document dumps which serves the purpose of a foreign power. But, at the very least, Americans have to discount this. This is an attempt to hijack and change American democracy by a foreign power. It can't be accepted.

We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.

In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.

Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.

Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion. You don't need any qualifications. Just walk through the door and keep your head down. Be respectful - "Yes chef!" - and you'll be given a trade. One day you'll be in a position where you can put a roof over your children's heads, you can put food on their table, create security for them.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

Paul Ryan whipped the votes to get fast track Trade Promotion Authority to sell our jobs to foreign countries. He absolutely worked on that. Paul Ryan owns it. He can't say he doesn't agree with it, because when he did that, that contract was already written. It was already set up - that treaty was already set up.

The EU has made it very clear that for frictionless trade and no tariffs on goods there is a mechanism for achieving that, but there are consequences. There are trade-offs that will have to happen.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.

I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade.

TPP replicates similar language from past trade agreements that has allowed foreign corporations the right to challenge U.S. federal, state, and local laws outside of American courts. These tribunals will not meet our high standard of transparency and due process, and they will rely on weak impartiality rules for selecting judges.

I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.