When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.
Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?
The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
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.
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.
People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.
It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
