Tariff Quotes

The main thrust that we want and that we were after is not the right to retaliate. The main thrust has always been respect for the NAFTA, i.e. repeal the (tariff) orders and return the deposits,

One thing the government could do would be to increase the amount of butter that could be imported without tariff, and that would provide ice cream producers and other users some additional supplies of butter,

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

We can fix the duties in our own tariff and on our imports, but we cannot fix the duties in the tariffs of foreign countries and on their imports.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

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.

Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer