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"Far from being the cause of our problems, free trade capitalism, as an economic system, is the only instrument we have to end hunger, poverty, and extreme poverty across our planet. The empirical evidence is unquestionable."
"He was a big proponent of free trade... he was a man of integrity."
"Free trade is always better for the economy."
"Kanzak aims for free movement, free trade, and cooperation on foreign policy among member countries."
"Our willingness to trade freely with the world is indeed an essential source of prosperity."
"The African countries want freedom of movement. They're creating the Africa Continental free trade community."
"Free market capitalism is the default human state because that's simply just about private property and free trade."
"Capitalism would involve some sort of free trade and not a monopoly everywhere."
"We're not opposed to fair to free trade, we're all for free trade but it's got to be fair trade."
"I believe in free market, I believe in free trade."
"Free trade between countries is a good thing."
"Free trade is almost always a good thing for the overall wealth and prosperity of nations."
"The best way to limit the control of a few is free trade on a worldwide basis."
"On the whole, I would support the kind of thinking and the kind of policy prescription letting goods flow across borders relatively unimpeded."
"The ability to exchange goods and services without government regulation."
"The most effective protection the consumer can get is free competition. If you really want to have a pro-consumer protection move, then you ought to join yourself with other people in promoting free trade."
"Free trade is the central piece of prosperity and peace in the world."
"That move toward complete free trade ushered in the great period of Britain’s prosperity and glory."
"I would argue that the social and moral issues are all on the side of free trade, that it is you, and people like you, who introduce protection, who are the ones who are violating fundamental social and moral issues."
"Free trade is better than protectionism. We now know that as a matter of economic science."
"Classical liberalism sees free trade as a path to universal peace and prosperity and likes as little government intervention as possible."
"The basic lesson about economic trade is that free trade expands the size of the economic pie."
"They believed that with a free trading system we could build prosperity for everybody. Not a zero-sum game."
"The ground under free trade is really shifting, and both Trump and Sanders are taking advantage of it."
"The benefits of free trade vastly outweigh the costs in the bottom half of the world."
"I believe strongly in free trade but it also has to be fair trade."
"Free trade can increase human well-being, though not all free trade benefits everyone equally."
"Japan did progress very much under free trade from 1868 to 1914."
"This fear for free trade is wrong because it assumes that everything that can be invented has been invented."
"This will include free movement of labor, capital, goods, and immigrants across the internal borders."
"Any individual country by itself, on average, tends to benefit from free trade regardless of what the other countries do."
"Free trade is always a good thing."
"If Britain now has a distinctive role... it is to represent the ideals of free trade and free markets within the community."
"If you can cooperate, what do you do? You just get to free trade."
"The United States is interested in creating perhaps the American century, a world of free trade, global agreements, a world of enterprise and commerce."
"Trade blocs have removed barriers and increased more free trade between countries."
"I don't think it's deglobalizing in a serious way; I don't think there's a real threat to the idea that free trade is something from which everyone can benefit."
"The more free trade is practiced by a country, the higher the standard of living of its inhabitants will be."
"Free trade was not only economically sensible but virtuous."
"The advocates of free trade gained their greatest ever victory when Parliament voted to repeal the Corn Laws and the British adopted free trade."