300 Quotes on Trade

• Venture beyond the pulse of the popular; where cobbled lanes unfurl stories perished and trails crowned in sunglasses shed oblivious unrest as coastal shadows spill tales haunting memory bemusedly clutch.

  Author: Elara Noodlewitz

• Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Author: Fareed Zakaria

• By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

  Author: Michael York

• The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

  Author: Teresa Wright

• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  Author: John Woolman

• There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

  Author: Roy Williams

• People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

  Author: Roy Williams

• For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

  Author: William Whipple

• Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

  Author: Alan Vega

• Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for.

  Author: Joshua Tucker

• But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

  Author: Donald Trump

• Every country has it trade offs.

  Author: Peter Tork

• They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

  Author: William Taft

• The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• Our trade opens to all the world.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

  Author: Mary Steenburgen

• On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  Author: George Soros

• The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

  Author: Mel Smith

• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

  Author: George Smith

• I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

  Author: Adam Smith

• Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

  Author: Luiz Silva

• I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

  Author: William Shirley

• We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

  Author: George Shaw

• Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

  Author: Jonathan Shapiro

• American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

  Author: John Shadegg

• All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

  Author: George Sand

• Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  Author: John Ruskin

• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

  Author: Marco Rubio

• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Author: Elihu Root

• I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.

  Author: Jon Ronson

• Free Tibet before free trade.

  Author: Zhu Rongji

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  Author: Zhu Rongji

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

  Author: Kenny Rogers

• I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

  Author: Jackie Robinson

• Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

  Author: Branch Rickey

• Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

  Author: Miranda Richardson

• In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

  Author: David Ricardo

• You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

  Author: Mary Retton

• Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

  Author: Robert Reich

• To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.

  Author: Sellapan Ramanathan

• A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.

  Author: Colin Quinn

• If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

  Author: Richard Price

• But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.

  Author: David Price

• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Author: Robert Pozen

• Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

  Author: Michael Porter

• I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

  Author: John Poindexter

• The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

  Author: William Petty

• Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

  Author: Li Peng

• The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

  Author: Ted Olson

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  Author: Ted Olson

• President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

  Author: Barack Obama

• I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

  Author: Oliver North

• Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

  Author: Dudley North

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

  Author: Dudley North

• So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out.

  Author: Dudley North

• That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

  Author: Lyn Nofziger

• Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

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

  Author: Martin Niemoller

• Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

  Author: Bob Ney

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

  Author: Richard Neal

• Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

  Author: Richard Neal

• Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

  Author: Richard Neal

• Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

  Author: Richard Neal

• I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  Author: Demi Moore

• Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.

  Author: Mario Monti

• Peace is a natural effect of trade.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• My trade and art is to live.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

  Author: Ludwig Mises

• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  Author: David Minge

• Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

  Author: John Mica

• That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

  Author: Mary McDonnell

• If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

  Author: George Mason

• As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

  Author: George Mason

• Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

  Author: Chris Martin

• I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

  Author: Bill Maher

• Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• Free trade should not mean free labor.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

  Author: Alfred Loisy

• I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

  Author: Belva Lockwood

• The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

  Author: Robin Leach

• Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

  Author: John Lawson

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

  Author: Vernon Law

• The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

  Author: Christian Lange

• The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

  Author: Christian Lange

• Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

  Author: David Korten

• I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

  Author: Jim Kolbe

• I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

  Author: Jim Kolbe

• A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

  Author: Arthur Koestler

• The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

  Author: Lawrence Klein

• And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

  Author: Allen Klein

• I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.

  Author: Robert Kirkman

• To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

  Author: Lane Kirkland

• Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Author: Florence Kelley

• Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

  Author: Marcy Kaptur

• That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

  Author: Marcy Kaptur

• In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

  Author: Paul Kagame

• On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  Author: Gary Johnson

• In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

  Author: Allen Iverson

• America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

  Author: Bobby Inman

• Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

  Author: William Inge

• It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

  Author: Gwen Ifill

• There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

  Author: Robert Hutchins

• I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

  Author: Laura Hillenbrand

• If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

  Author: James Hill

• My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.

  Author: Alexis Herman

• This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

  Author: A. Herbert

• There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

  Author: Bob Hawke

• In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

  Author: Albert Hart

• If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

  Author: Townsend Harris

• We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

  Author: Townsend Harris

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  Author: W. Harriman

• The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

  Author: W. Harriman

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  Author: W. Harriman

• We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

  Author: W. Harriman

• The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

  Author: George Grey

• I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

  Author: Catherine Great

• But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  Author: Samuel Gompers

• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  Author: Samuel Gompers

• Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

  Author: Al Goldstein

• The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.

  Author: Danny Glover

• I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

  Author: Gil Gerard

• I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

  Author: King George V

• There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

  Author: Susan George

• The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

  Author: Henry George

• I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

  Author: Bob Geldof

• The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

  Author: Alberto Fujimori

• Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

  Author: Bill Frist

• No nation was ever ruined by trade.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

  Author: Vito Fossella

• For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

  Author: James Forrestal

• If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.

  Author: James Forrestal

• But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

  Author: Shelby Foote

• Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

  Author: Dario Fo

• The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

  Author: John Flynn

• Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.

  Author: Brett Favre

• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  Author: William Faulkner

• The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

  Author: Ron Fairly

• The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

  Author: Geoffrey Faber

• This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

  Author: Donald Evans

• You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

  Author: Donald Evans

• As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• War is the trade of Kings.

  Author: John Dryden

• Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

  Author: John Dryden

• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  Author: Edward Dowden

• I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

  Author: Donna Douglas

• I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

  Author: Elizabeth Dole

• Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

  Author: Marlene Dietrich

• Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

  Author: Jacques Delors

• So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

  Author: Desmond Dekker

• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  Author: Bette Davis

• We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

  Author: Glenn Danzig

• There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

  Author: William Daley

• The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.

  Author: Michael Crapo

• You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

  Author: Nikki Cox

• I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

  Author: Kent Conrad

• We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

  Author: Jennifer Connelly

• I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.

  Author: Howard Coble

• I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

  Author: Howard Coble

• The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

  Author: William Cobbett

• Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

  Author: Chris Chocola

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  Author: C. Cherryh

• Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

  Author: Saxby Chambliss

• We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

  Author: Catherine Catherine II

• I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

  Author: Barbara Castle

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  Author: Barbara Castle

• I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

  Author: John Carpenter

• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

  Author: Frank Carlucci

• By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

  Author: Henry Carey

• From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

  Author: Henry Carey

• It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

  Author: Dennis Cardoza

• In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

  Author: Lois Capps

• You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

  Author: Albert Camus

• Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

  Author: Jane Byrne

• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  Author: Saffron Burrows

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

  Author: Martin Buren

• Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

  Author: Lois Bujold

• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  Author: Warren Buffett

• The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

  Author: John Bruton

• The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.

  Author: John Bruton

• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  Author: Earl Browder

• Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

  Author: Terry Brooks

• Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

  Author: John Bright

• A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

  Author: George Borrow

• This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

  Author: David Bonior

• China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

  Author: David Bonior

• Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

  Author: Omar Bongo

• I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

  Author: John Boehner

• Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

  Author: Elizabeth Blackwell

• Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

  Author: Tim Bishop

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