Free Trade Agreement Quotes

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

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

There are people working in Mahoning Valley in steel, in Findlay, Ohio, in rubber, in many other places because we've enforced trade deals.

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

Trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course, and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles. ...We believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen. That at least is why I oppose protection root and branch, veiled and unveiled, one-sided or reciprocal. I oppose it in any form

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

We could not get NAFTA passed today with the current Congress…. We’ve got to combine trade liberalization with a broad-based sharing of the fruits of our productivity.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

The TPP will be good for the American economy, the Vietnamese economy, and the labor and environmental standards that make life better for our people.

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

We've made our living for a long time on commerce and trade at the border.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

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

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Paul Ryan whipped the votes to get fast track Trade Promotion Authority to sell our jobs to foreign countries. He absolutely worked on that. Paul Ryan owns it. He can't say he doesn't agree with it, because when he did that, that contract was already written. It was already set up - that treaty was already set up.

The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada.

NAFTA was conceived to avoid discrimination against goods. A U.S.-Mexico treaty on immigration should be devised to prevent discrimination against people.

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

I had a very close relationship with [Brian] Mulroney.

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.

The United States should adopt a protective tariff of such a character as will help the struggling industries of Europe to get on their feet.