Pat Buchanan Quotes

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

I don't think we should sell out the American worker. That's why I am opposed to NAFTA.

I think TPP, as we knew it, is gone.

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

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

Take a look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever made by any country having to do with economic development. It's economic un development as far as America is concerned.

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

We could not get NAFTA passed today with the current Congress…. We’ve got to combine trade liberalization with a broad-based sharing of the fruits of our productivity.

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

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

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

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

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

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

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.

Protectionism is the fool's gold of American politics.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

We have quit discussing the tariff, and have turned our attention to getting trade wherever it can be found.