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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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" If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America. "

" We are the world's biggest importer. We need to treat the other countries as good suppliers. "

" There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions. "

" In many critical things, such as the very high purity of the aluminium we need in aerospace, we only have one producer. That's not a good formula. "

" We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit. "

" 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. "

" Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. "

" There isn't a bank in the world that could withstand a run. They all borrow short and lend long, regardless of what they say. "

" If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don't have to use it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not Portugal, not Spain, not Italy. The reason is France is very uncompetitive to begin with on a global scale, and the measures that Hollande has been putting in have been very, very negative from the point of view of economic growth. "

" Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one. "

" Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. "

" China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice. "

" 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. "

" I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade. "

" 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. "

" Washington, D.C., is the new Wall Street. No significant financial transaction of any consequence occurs without it. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall. "

" If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors. "

" Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the Unites States does. "

" The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people. "

" Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over. "

" If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it's a warrant on economy. "

" 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. "

" NAFTA is an ancient treaty. "

" Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs. "

" 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. "