NAFTA Quotes

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

— Anand Mahindra

Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.

— Austan Goolsbee

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

— Pat Buchanan

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

— Wilbur Ross

NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.

— Collin Peterson

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

NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

— Donald Trump

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

— William M. Daley

But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings.

— Annie Lowrey

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

— Henry A. Kissinger

A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

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

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the…

— Wilbur Ross

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

NAFTA, signed by her [Hillary Clinton's] husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.

— Donald Trump

Let me first clarify that NAFTA is a trilateral agreement. The decision of walking away is not of Mexico or Canada. The…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Our jobs are being taken out by the deal that Hillary Clinton's husband signed, NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever. Our…

— Donald Trump

NAFTA stripped us of manufacturing jobs. We lost our jobs. We lost our money. We lost our plants. It is a disaster.

— Donald Trump

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

One can see the results of those policies in hundreds of communities around my State. As one might expect, our largest communities…

— Russ Feingold

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think…

— Stephen F. Lynch

She [Hillary Clinton] and Bill [Clinton] supported the NAFTA, the adoption of NAFTA that sent our jobs overseas, and they both supported…

— Jill Stein

Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of…

— Ron Paul

This softwood lumber dispute is a very old dispute that almost follows a dynamic entirely of its own that is actually somewhat…

— Donald Trump

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

NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed…

— Noam Chomsky

NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely!

— Kent Hovind

NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.

— Henry A. Kissinger

If I win, day one, we are going to announce our plans to renegotiate NAFTA.

— Donald Trump

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

— Ted Yoho

I will announce my intention to totally renegotiate NAFTA, one of the worst deals America has ever made.

— Donald Trump

[Bill Clinton] approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

— Donald Trump