Wilbur Ross Quotes

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

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

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

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

NAFTA has dramatically improved our economy and that of our neighbors as well.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.

NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.

We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

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

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.

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

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

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

The USMCA ushers in a new era for trade policy. Between labor protections and support for the American automobile industry, it places our manufacturers at the center of a blue collar comeback.

E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.

The Pacific Alliance is an initiative to align our economies.

Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.

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

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.