Jeff Sessions Quotes

If trade agreements were subject to amendment [by Congress] then no country would ever want to negotiate with us.

Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

I think it is not important to have the free trade agreement with China.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

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

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

In all free trade agreements there are winners and losers.

President Trump promised to negotiate trade agreements to get better deals for America and protect American jobs. Bottom line: He delivered.

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

I'm not going to negotiate with Brazil for its pretty face. I'm going to negotiate with Brazil because they're going to open their car-manufacturing market.

The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.

Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.

It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.

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

I favored the idea of Trans-Pacific Partnership, but I did not support the administration - the [Barack] Obama administration TPP. There are three or four things they did in that, that I though were terrible agreements that were not worth supporting.

I concluded that the trade agreements weren't working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs of Americans, and that both needed to change, and Donald Trump was out there. So I went to his rally.

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.

I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it.

I was against it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] once , it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out.

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.

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

Mexico with the United States has outnegotiated us and beat us to a pulp through our past leaders. They've made us look foolish. We have a trade deficit of $60 billion with Mexico. On top of that, the border is soft and weak, drugs are pouring in, and I'm not going to let that happen.