Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Free Trade


Newt Gingrich: Supported NAFTA & GATT in common with Clinton administration

Gingrich's recent enthusiasms have been more down-to-earth: new information technologies and the rise of global markets are the powerful forces transforming our society. Gingrich was stalwart in his support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), although in both cases it meant making common cause with the Clinton administration and many Democrats.
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 93 Jan 1, 1995

Newt Gingrich: Compete in world market because we can't retreat from it

We need to create local jobs here through sales worldwide. So we have to be productive enough, creative enough, interesting enough that people all over the planet like it.
--Renewing American Civilization, Class 1

We are much better off to have more IBMs and more AT&T's that are able to be everywhere. And we're much better off to have thousands of new, small businesses that compete everywhere a jet airplane goes, and anywhere a fax machine can receive their latest ad.
--L.A.Times, June 17, 1990

We must learn to compete in the world market because we cannot retreat from it. The greatest productivity and the greatest take-home pay are all going to be found by competing in the world market. To retreat from competition is to accept decay. We must be tougher in negotiating with our trading partners, but our goal should be to increase American exports and to create American jobs, not to decrease imports and kill foreign jobs.
--Congressional Record, January 30, 1992

Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p.104-5 Jan 1, 1995

  • The above quotations are from Quotations from Speaker Newt
    The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution
    by Newt Gingrich and Amy D. Bernstein.
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