Donald Trump Quotes

I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.

America has to make a new trade deal with Mexico because we're getting clobbered.

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

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.

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

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

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

There is nothing inconsistent between standing up for free trade and standing up for American workers.

We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.

I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

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

I don't believe Trump or Cruz are fair traders. I think they are probably both free traders.

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

Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one.

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.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

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.

We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field.

I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will never, ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. America first!

If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner.

I am going to renegotiate NAFTA. And if I can't make a great deal - then we're going to terminate NAFTA and we're going to create new deals.

I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful.

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.