Exchange With Reporters
12/26/1990
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.
We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral . . .. Trade freely with China, and time is on our side.
More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.