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"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."
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"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."
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"The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods."
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"We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that."
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"The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices."
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"Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers."
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"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist."
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"That foreign trade should be fair rather than free."
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"To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error."
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"Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines."
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"China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement."
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"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender."
Fight
"Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland."
Control
"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."
Hope
"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."
Politics
"Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke."
Movies
"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."
Disaster
"How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it."
Money
"It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again."
Fear
"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States."
Business
"Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since."
Leadership
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