The basic problem is for a congressman or a president to get elected, they need obscene amounts of money. And the only place you can get obscene amounts of money is from Wall Street and the big corporations who benefit from shipping our jobs and our factories overseas – that’s the fundamental political problem. Peter Navarro Read Quote
Cheap labor is a small part of the problem at work here. If it were only cheap labor, America would be in trouble. Because it’s other things, too, we have a great chance to turn it around. Here’s the problem: Our high corporate tax rate pushes our companies offshore. Our high regulatory burden pushes our companies offshore. Peter Navarro Read Quote
It’s extraordinary to me – you cannot name a presidential candidate in history who has singlehandedly, through bad trade deals, destroyed more American jobs and more American factories than Hillary Clinton. She did NAFTA, she did China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, she did the South Korean 2012 deal – every single one of those. Peter Navarro Read Quote
As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray. Peter Navarro Read Quote
We’ve got tremendous dumping of steel into our country and aluminum into our country – all manner of products being sold in our country at below cost, stealing American jobs or depressing wages. Peter Navarro Read Quote
Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women. The billionaire gets along with the bricklayer. Peter Navarro Read Quote
In my life, I’m an expert on a few things. Losing close elections is one of them. Electric utility regulation is another. Neither is a barrel of laughs, but both have their moments. Peter Navarro Read Quote
A campaign is a complex organism that requires expensive parts. Finding the right parts and meshing them together into a cohesive working unit is an art in and of itself. Peter Navarro Read Quote
During a campaign, the trick is to spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds with anyone and to keep moving so that you not only shake a few hundred hands but also have a thousand people see you doing it. Peter Navarro Read Quote
I am of the school that believes, for the most part, that gays are born and not made. That is, I believe – and there appears to be significant scientific evidence to back me up – that there is a genetic predisposition to be gay. Peter Navarro Read Quote