Economic Agreement Quotes

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.

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

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

A core group of the world's leading economies need to come together and hammer out an understanding.

We're always willing to look at ways NAFTA can work better. But it's a fine line between looking at ways to make it work better and actually starting to open the agreement. I think, if you actually opened the agreement, I think you would get into a negotiation that - that would never terminate.

Comrade Khrushchev often repeats that Socialism cannot be built with American wheat. I think it can be done by anyone who knows how to do it, while a person who doesn't know how to do it cannot build Socialism even with his own wheat. Khrushchev says we live on charity received from the imperialist countries ... What moral right have those who attack us to rebuke us about American aid or credits when Khrushchev himself has just tried to conclude an economic agreement with America?

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

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

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.

I am disappointed that the President made the decision to have Ambassador Froman sign the TPP agreement in New Zealand.

It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade.

America has to make a new trade deal with Mexico because we're getting clobbered.