Top 88 Agreements Quotes

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

Our safety and security is more important than ever, and Congress needs to take an active role in enforcing international agreements that support global security.

We’re working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border in Ireland.

President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

The bank bailout should have been more focused on helping small and medium sized banks, on helping homeowners. I think the trade agreements are a disaster.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy.

If you don’t have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.

My nine-year-old was trying to read my spiel. When she tried to pronounce the word ‘pharmaceutical,’ it was frightening. She would love to argue in the Supreme Court one day. My son asked me, ‘Mommy, why do you have to have so many arguments? Why can’t you have agreements?’

It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of… the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.

Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world’s largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

President Trump has done an extraordinary amount to promote our capitalist origins here at home while simultaneously, and this is how the government should work, protecting American workers from unbridled capitalism by redoing our trade agreements.

Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be – in the view of many – cataclysmic.

A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they’re going to inhabit this society together.

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you’re not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things – not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it’s 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes – Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.

Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia’s behavior is going to be.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members’ interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

I support giving President Obama the ability to negotiate and complete new trade agreements with some of the fastest-growing economies in the world.

The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements – all these issues are in discussion.

Israel made peace with Egypt, the largest Arab State. There are militant Islamists there, but there is also law. There are agreements and also defense arrangements there.

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we’ve got to look at them. But that doesn’t mean that we’re going to put a tariff on everything.

The critical role of Congress in the adoption of international agreements was clearly laid out by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution. And it’s a principle upon which Democrats and Republicans have largely agreed.

We absolutely want to harness nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. There should be no doubt about Saudi Arabian intentions. Whatever we do is going to be under strict compliance with international agreements.

From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.

While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to ‘fast track’ these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don’t make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

The problem with regional trade agreements is you get picked apart by the first country. Then you negotiate with the second country. You get picked apart. And you go with the third one. You get picked apart again.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

Federal consent decrees – agreements between the federal government and a local agency to change how that agency operates – are burdensome, costly, and rarely justified.

U.S. companies should consider all the implications before signing agreements that give employees carte blanche to funnel company information to law-enforcement agencies.

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.