NAFTA Quotes

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

— Anand Mahindra

Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.

— Austan Goolsbee

NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.

— Collin Peterson

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

— Pat Buchanan

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

— Wilbur Ross

E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.

— Elizabeth May

We've lost tens and hundreds of thousands of jobs because of the way NAFTA was negotiated.

— Robert Blaha

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

— Pat Buchanan

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

— Michael Badnarik

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

— Stephen F. Lynch

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

— Chrystia Freeland

You know that if you [Hillary Clinton] did win, you would approve that [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and that will be almost as bad…

— Donald Trump

If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and…

— Luis Videgaray Caso

I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things,…

— Barbara Mikulski

America has lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA, a deal signed by Bill Clinton and supported strongly by Hillary Clinton.…

— Donald Trump

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

— William J. Clinton

Donald Trump has been rejecting the idea of trade agreements like NAFTA, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

— Audie Cornish

I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it…

— Kevin Brady

NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to…

— Jerome Corsi

We're always willing to look at ways NAFTA can work better. But it's a fine line between looking at ways to make…

— Stephen Harper

Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can…

— Noam Chomsky

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job;…

— John F. Kerry

Trump said we got snookered. That those agreements like NAFTA were the worst agreements ever and suggested that our trade negotiators were…

— Joseph Stiglitz

[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want…

— Maria Bartiromo

We know from drafts that the Donald Trump's administration has circulated on Capitol Hill, there are a few things they would like…

— Donald Trump

The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've…

— Anne Applebaum

Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions… Under these provisions, the country in…

— Kathleen Brown

Hillary Clinton has supported virtually every trade agreement that has been destroying our middle class. She supported NAFTA and she supported China's…

— Donald Trump

When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called…

— Noam Chomsky

Donald Trump can have some advantage in negotiations. NAFTA is high on his agenda.But if he goes too far, I think the…

— Wendy Sherman

In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of…

— Rush Limbaugh

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S.…

— Ron Paul

“Actually, if you looked closely, even N.A.F.T.A.'s advocates conceded that it was probably going to harm the majority of the populations of…

— Noam Chomsky

“Under NAFTA, businesses, their property and their money can travel back and forth across national borders with relative ease, while workers who…

— John Gibler

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

— Luis Videgaray Caso