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" The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people. "
Wilbur Ross
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" We are the world's biggest importer. We need to treat the other countries as good suppliers. "
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" The fundamentals are the U.S. is going to end up being a net exporter of natural gas. That's going to be wonderful to help our balance of payments, reduce our dependence on a lot of countries that aren't so crazy about us, and change many, many parts of what goes on here. "
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" 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. "
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" Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. "
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" 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. "
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" Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. "
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" 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. "
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" I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format? "
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" The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism. "
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" I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market. "
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" Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals. "
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" 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. "
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" China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic. "
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" 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. "
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" Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one. "
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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. "
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" You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. "
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" Enforcement is a very important part of the administration strategy. We think that even our friendly nations should live by the rules, and if they don't, we will intend to enforce things against them. "
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" Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around. "
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" I think partly the decline in the peso was due to worry about renegotiation of NAFTA, but I think we also need to think about some other mechanisms for making the peso/dollar exchange rate a bit more stable. "
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" Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon. "
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" A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period. "
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" If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don't have to use it. "
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" One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a kind of loser mentality. And when you ask them what's wrong with the business, they'll point to extraneous forces. "
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" Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel. "
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" It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation. "
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" 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. "
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" My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated. "
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" I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries. "
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" 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. "
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