Denise Dresser Quotes

I can't come back home with an agreement that will not be a win-win-win situation for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

I think it is important that we should be on the side of keeping borders open with respect to trade and movement of factors of production.

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

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

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

National border lines are much easier to draw than economic lines.

The United States is destined to have a special relationship with Mexico as clear and as strong as we have had with Canada and Great Britain.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

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.

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

Trade accords had been a staple of the post-World War II world, providing a mechanism for economic growth, development, and association with friends and allies, and a means of reining in would-be adversaries who otherwise would have little incentive to act with restraint.

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

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.

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

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

I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.