Collin C. Peterson Quotes

The data on worker displacement after NAFTA reads like a funeral program for the middle class.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

Trump has said he will dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement. This would be hugely harmful for Canada and the U.S. and for integration in the region.

Let me first clarify that NAFTA is a trilateral agreement. The decision of walking away is not of Mexico or Canada. The decision of walking away is of the U.S.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

America has lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA, a deal signed by Bill Clinton and supported strongly by Hillary Clinton. And by the way, the single worst trade deal ever made in history anywhere.

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

Well, the sugar guys have been dealing with NAFTA ever since it passed. Now we've got Mexico dumping sugar that's subsidized by the Mexican government into our market in violation of the World Trade Organization, because NAFTA gave them open access to our sugar market. They claim they're not subsidized, but the government owns half the industry in Mexico.

The problem with NAFTA was with what we wanted. And there, the agenda had been set by our corporations. So what is true is that workers in the United States and workers in the developing countries were often disadvantaged. They were worse off. The big winners were our corporations.

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

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

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

Every major industry sector in the U.S. would be positively impacted by the USMCA, with blue-collar manufacturing jobs seeing the most significant gains.

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

Many industries in my home state of North Carolina will greatly benefit from the USMCA.

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 opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

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.

Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.