NAFTA Quotes · Page 2

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

— Donald Trump

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

— Jill Stein

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

— Donald Trump

NAFTA was conceived to avoid discrimination against goods. A U.S.-Mexico treaty on immigration should be devised to prevent discrimination against people.

— Denise Dresser

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary…

— Chris Matthews

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

— Rush Limbaugh

The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over…

— Noam Chomsky

Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'

— Barry Gardiner

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that…

— Vicente Fox

I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that,…

— Collin Peterson

I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three…

— Charles Bowden

When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or…

— Benjamin Barber

The message is NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) is there. NAFTA has helped both our countries enormously. We live up…

— Anne McLellan

I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was…

— Rick Mercer

I would like to believe that TPP will lead to more exports and jobs for the American people. But history shows that…

— Dan Lipinski

This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the…

— Donald Trump

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union…

— Nina Easton

In a fundamental sense, this debate about NAFTA is a debate about whether we will embrace these changes and create the jobs…

— William J. Clinton

I lost two very good-paying jobs, destroyed because of NAFTA. We know how detrimental that bad policy can be.

— Mark Robinson

Don't forget, a lot of people want that to happen because they make a lot of money by taking money out of…

— Donald Trump

Hoosiers have seen good paying jobs leave our state for decades because of NAFTA and other bad trade deals from Washington. President…

— Mike Braun

This rhetoric that Donald Trump is used is very consistent with rhetoric he's used on the campaign trail for a long time…

— Avik Roy

There was a hope then by some people that what we call trickle-down economics would work. That if you made the economy…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I share the skepticism that my friends have about NAFTA. It was woefully weak in protecting workers and on the enforcement side.…

— Tom Perez

I think a lot of scapegoating has been done on NAFTA. The reality is, a lot of the jobs have been lost…

— Luis Videgaray Caso

Well, the sugar guys have been dealing with NAFTA ever since it passed. Now we've got Mexico dumping sugar that's subsidized by…

— Collin Peterson

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow,…

— Denise Dresser

During the debate over NAFTA President Clinton said, 'I believe that NAFTA will create a million jobs in the first five years…

— Bernie Sanders

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense…

— Ted Yoho

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

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

— Robert Blaha

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

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

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

— Luis Videgaray Caso

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

— 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

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

I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the…

— Russ Feingold