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" Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs. "
Wilbur Ross
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" Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I mean scientific review and not a political filter. "
Wilbur Ross
Political
See
Research
" The way we'll get more jobs is by creating new industries, new companies, businesses that are higher tech and therefore can compete. "
Wilbur Ross
Creating
Way
More
" I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners. "
Wilbur Ross
Serious
I See
Myself
" It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation. "
Wilbur Ross
Sound
Important
Implementation
" I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade. "
Wilbur Ross
Trade
Am
I Am
" I think there's a big difference between the impact of trade agreements on corporate America and the impact on Mr. and Mrs. America. Corporate America has adjusted to them by investing lots of capital offshore... What we're doing is we're exporting jobs and importing products instead of exporting products and keeping jobs. "
Wilbur Ross
America
Trade
Think
" NAFTA is an ancient treaty. "
Wilbur Ross
NAFTA
Treaty
Ancient
" The reality is if something were to happen that cost China jobs - like, if they upwardly revalued the currency a lot - those jobs aren't going to come back to the U.S. They would go to Vietnam; they would go to Thailand. They would go to whatever country was the lowest cost. "
Wilbur Ross
Currency
Country
Back
" The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people. "
Wilbur Ross
People
Successful
Working
" I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market. "
Wilbur Ross
Think
Opportunity
Like
" Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. "
Wilbur Ross
United
United States
Shipping
" There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade. "
Wilbur Ross
Sensible
Dumb
Trade
" You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. "
Wilbur Ross
You
Day
More
" The rules of origin in NAFTA need some tightening. Rules of origin are what let material outside of NAFTA to come in and benefit from all the taxes and tariff reductions within NAFTA. "
Wilbur Ross
Outside
Need
Taxes
" 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. "
Wilbur Ross
Trade
You
Country
" The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about a third of Japan's exports are also to the emerging countries, so in a strange way, Japan, which has very little internal growth, its big companies are a good way to play the emerging markets. "
Wilbur Ross
Strange
Company
Good
" Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have lending offices. That's crazy. "
Wilbur Ross
Crazy
Compliance
More
" Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals. "
Wilbur Ross
Things
Defeat
American
" China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice. "
Wilbur Ross
Country
Talk
Free
" Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. "
Wilbur Ross
Individual
Strange
Big
" I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it's a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other. "
Wilbur Ross
Think
Government
Cloud
" If trade deficits are good, why is China so pleased that they run a huge trade surplus? It's perfectly obvious that if China hadn't been such a huge net-exporter, it never would have grown at the rate that it did. "
Wilbur Ross
Good
China
Never
" The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA. "
Wilbur Ross
Flaws
Inside
Trade
" We'll be aggressive on trade because we know that deals that have been made historically have resulted in the great loss of manufacturing jobs, a great amount of closed manufacturing businesses. We don't want that to continue. "
Wilbur Ross
Great
Know
Loss
" I believe in the two-party system. "
Wilbur Ross
Believe
I Believe
I Believe In
" The United States is the least protectionist country in the world but has the largest trade deficit, while other countries are highly protectionist and have huge trade surpluses. This cannot continue. "
Wilbur Ross
Country
Trade
United States
" Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the Unites States does. "
Wilbur Ross
Mexico
Better
Believe
" Part of the reason why I'm supporting Trump is that I think we need a more radical, new approach to government - at least in the U.S. - from what we've had before. "
Wilbur Ross
Need
Why
Reason
" We are the world's biggest importer. We need to treat the other countries as good suppliers. "
Wilbur Ross
Good
Biggest
Other
" Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel. "
Wilbur Ross
Justification
Some
Real