I followed what all these economists are saying. Most of them make these late-night psychic hotlines look respectable,

So my hope is these tariffs are short-lived and they serve as leverage to lower tariffs across the globe.”

If the president would be open to using targeted tariffs as a tool — something that I'm open to and I think others are — that's one thing,

What’s happening is not good. Will it continue? Will we find the bottom, and then it will start to go back up? I hope so,

There's no question that the American people are the ones that are going to be paying the brunt of this,

If the result of yesterday’s announcement is a lot of our trading partners across the globe dramatically reduce the tariffs they charge on U. S. goods and services, and the consequence of that is the U. S. government dramatically cuts the tariffs that were announced yesterday, that would be a great outcome,

Mr. President, the price hikes that will happen for Maine families, every time they go to the grocery store, they fill their gas tank, they fill their heating oil tank, if these tariffs go into effect, will be so harmful. And as price hikes always do, they will hurt those the most who can afford them the least."

Tariffs have also led to political decimation. When [former president then member of Congress William] McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50 percent of their seats in the national election. When [Smoot-Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they're not only bad economically, they're bad politically."

In the long run, we’re all dead.”

If Republican members start drifting away from supporting President Trump, everybody gets weaker,