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A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

— Mark Foley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.

— Elaine Chao

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

— Harold Wilson

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

— John C. Calhoun

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

— Lawrence Summers

Any deal that's not approved by Congress won't be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future.

— Tom Cotton

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

— Ma Jun

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

— Gary Bettman

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

— David Suzuki

✗Opposing Perspectives

We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

— Li Shufu

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

— Mohamed ElBaradei