Political Quotes

“I think there is an even greater issue now that I hope all of Congress will start looking at and the American people will look at, and that is the whole underpinning of this blind adherence to free trade that those in the executive branch and many of our colleagues and friends in Congress have adhered to over the last 10 years or so. If it is true, if these apocalyptic claims by the Goldman-Sachs representatives of the world are true, if you want to have a poor person Mazatlan send me a thousand dollars, if that is true that we really have tied the United States and the well-being of our people to the fortunes of a Third World nation which we cannot control, then there is a fundamental flaw in our free trade philosophy. What that means is we have handcuffed ourselves pursuant to the deep breathers, the free trade advocates, to a drowning swimmer, somebody who cannot swim. I am talking about Mexico and other Third World markets, so-called emerging markets that our investors have put billions of dollars into. That is not a fundamentally sound economic policy for the United States to follow.”