Charles Boustany Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Obama and Kuczynski each promised to do all they could to enact the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

I would say to every nation on earth, by treaty, your people shall trade freely with us, and ours with you ...

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

There is no precedent of an advanced economy withdrawing from a trade agreement as deep and as complex as the European Union.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

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

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

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

We always saw TPP as something that we want to be part of. In the beginning, we were not part of TPP, neither Canada or Mexico. So when we finally joined the negotiations, to us it was an opportunity.

I opposed the World Trade Organization.

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

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

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

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

I am disappointed that the President made the decision to have Ambassador Froman sign the TPP agreement in New Zealand.

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.

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.