Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

I think we've been able to establish good relationships with people on President Trump's team, and that gives us an opportunity to do better than what most people expect in terms of the relationship. And we are working towards that on many fronts, particularly on trade.

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

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

Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

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.

In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

Politicians make pacts; people make peace.

Drafting a treaty is much like drafting a law, and I doubt if the members of this committee could point to a single law whose text they would all agree is absolutely perfect, totally without a flaw. The successive drafts of a treaty get better and better …. Even the final text that is signed and ratified will have flaws, but it will be accepted if it is seen by a strong consensus as substantially better than no treaty at all.

The United States is destined to have a special relationship with Mexico as clear and as strong as we have had with Canada and Great Britain.

It seems to me to matter little whether you have an alliance which is committed to paper, or whether you have an understanding in the minds of the statesmen of the respective countries.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

Repudiation. That’s what nations do when they don’t like agreements. They repudiate them.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace – but a peace I hope with honour.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

In accommodation with other Powers, differences of opinion must be looked for, even those most agreed on the same general views.