Administration Quote by Russ Feingold

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look…

— Hillary Clinton

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still…

— Ernest Istook

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Ron Paul

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that…

— Stephen F. Lynch

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

— Richard Neal

I opposed the World Trade Organization.

— Pat Buchanan

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Using the greatest business people in the world, which America has, I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements.

— Donald Trump

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

— Stephen F. Lynch

I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is…

— Bernie Sanders

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

— Martin O'Malley