Collin C. Peterson Quotes

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.

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

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

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

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

I supported the Korean Trade Agreement in 2011. They promised - when it was signed, President [Barak] Obama said it would increase our exports to Korea by $10 billion a year.That creates jobs in America.Since - last year, 2015, there was no increase, like instead of billions of dollars there was like a $100 million increase in our exports to Korea, whereas as their imports to us went up $12 billion, and our trade deficit increased 240 percent.

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

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

By definition, by reducing our trade deficit we will be hurting consumers. Consumers are always better off with a trade deficit.

May our exports be so great, and our imports so small, that the balance of trade may be in our favor.

Unfettered free trade has been a disaster not only for Americans but for the working people of Mexico and Canada as well.

Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity, secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first.

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

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

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.

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

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

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 concluded that the trade agreements weren't working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs of Americans, and that both needed to change, and Donald Trump was out there. So I went to his rally.

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.

Mexico with the United States has outnegotiated us and beat us to a pulp through our past leaders. They've made us look foolish. We have a trade deficit of $60 billion with Mexico. On top of that, the border is soft and weak, drugs are pouring in, and I'm not going to let that happen.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.