George H.W. Bush: “It's fashionable to knock politics.”

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral . . .. Trade freely with China, and time is on our side.

But he hasn't heard my latest proposal. The bottom 99 percent will do well when they get to split Dick Cheney's stock options.

George W. Bush also focused on the inevitability of history saying 'trade freely with China and time is on our side.'

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.