Donald Trump Quotes

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.

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

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

I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

Going on and getting good bilateral agreement is a better way [than Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements], and I'm fine with that strategy. I think that strategy can work as well.

As president, Clinton will continue to oppose TPP until it dies.

I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.

Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.

I do have a concern that if we just say no Trans-Pacific Partnership, we're done, we're ignoring the region, and then, yes, I think we're creating a void for China, but that is not what the president [Donald Trump] is saying.

We have people that are political hacks negotiating our trade deals.

And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

If trade agreements were subject to amendment [by Congress] then no country would ever want to negotiate with us.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

We need to strike better trade deals, but we need to do it in a way that ensures that we are at the table on these deals.

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

I've always been worried about Justin Trudeau's attitude towards trade. We saw during the softwood lumber negotiations that he failed to get an extension while President Obama was still in office.

I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.

NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico.

Trade negotiations require compromise.

Using the greatest business people in the world, which America has, I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements.

We know from drafts that the Donald Trump's administration has circulated on Capitol Hill, there are a few things they would like to change about NAFTA. They would like to, for example, have the ability to impose tariffs just because imports are surging from Canada or Mexico, not necessarily because they're being sold unfairly. They want more freedom to use our countervailing the subsidy laws against Canada and Mexico.

I absolutely trust Hillary Clinton to stand strong on trade agreements.