NAFTA Quotes · Page 3

When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they…

— Collin Peterson

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

— Robert Blaha

Your husband, [Hillary Clinton], signed NAFTA, which was one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry.

— Donald Trump

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the…

— Noah Feldman

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this…

— Donald Trump

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

— Jerome Corsi

“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

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

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

— Audie Cornish

North Carolina's industrial workers have been crushed by Bill Clinton's signing of NAFTA supported by crooked Hillary Clinton.

— Donald Trump

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

— Russ Feingold

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

If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's…

— Stephen F. Lynch

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

— Noam Chomsky

NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you…

— Winona LaDuke

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

— Lawrence Summers

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a…

— Noam Chomsky

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with…

— Bernie Sanders

In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very…

— Barbara Mikulski

NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations…

— Bernie Sanders