Paul Nehlen Quotes

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

The people see the layoffs. We must also show them the payoffs of trade.

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field.

When a company wants to move to Mexico or another company - or another country and they want to build a nice, beautiful factory and they want to sell their product through our border, no tax, and the people that all got fired, so we end up with unemployment and debt, and they end up with jobs and factories and all of the other things, not going to happen that way. And the way you stop it is by imposing a tax.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

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

Free trade would place our farmers and workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.

U.S. trade policy has been a disaster for American workers.

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

We have a raising wages agenda. And that includes tax policy, trade policy. TPP is a very bad agreement. Covers 40 percent of the world's economy, and it will cost us jobs. It's not well-drafted. It's an agreement, an investment agreement that will benefit Wall Street a lot, but not working people.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

Debates about trade inevitably revolve around the question of jobs, even thought trade has little effect of aggregate employment levels.

I don't think we should sell out the American worker. That's why I am opposed to NAFTA.

Protect and foster American industries … Democrats are willing to risk our manufacturing interests in the face of the starving hordes of pauper labor in other countries.

Let’s export American products, not American jobs.

We want to export our products but not our jobs.

Globalization: We get cheaper running shoes—You lose your job!