NAFTA Quotes · Page 2

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

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

— Robert Blaha

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

— Elizabeth May

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

— Jill Stein

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

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Audie Cornish

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Benjamin Barber

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

— Donald Trump

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

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

The problem with NAFTA was with what we wanted. And there, the agenda had been set by our corporations. So what is…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Russ Feingold

“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

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

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Donald Trump

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

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

— Lawrence Summers

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

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

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

If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.

— Andrew Scheer

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

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