Distorting Quotes

However, we will not consider changes to our own programs unless the other WTO (World Trade Organization) members commit to open their markets to our goods and agree to reduce their own subsidy and trade-distorting programs. - Rob Portman

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers. - Leon Jouhaux

Elaborate business structures, even forms of compliance with modern risk management and corporate governance principles, can have the effect of masking or distorting the underlying moral judgements. - Trevor Manuel

Democrats are politicizing and distorting events. - Donald Evans

Africa is poor because Africa hasn't grown. And it can only grow when it is allowed to trade freely and openly and fairly. That means these trade distorting subsidies must be removed by 2010, but we are nowhere near that. - Niall Fitzgerald

[The offer was not unconditional: It would be valid only if the E.U. and Japan also delivered on large cuts in trade-distorting support for agriculture.] The U.S. is willing to take some pain... But those who subsidize more need to reduce more. - Rob Portman