Nafta Quotes - Page 2

• Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a labor historian on the use of NAFTA to undermine and destroy unions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Practice, Use, Unions

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.

  Rick Mercer

  Thinking, Talking, Agreement

  "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau To Visit Trump Monday". Interview with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, kccu.org. February 12, 2017.

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• I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful.

  Collin Peterson

  Would Be, Opinion, Wonderful

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I am going to renegotiate NAFTA. And if I can't make a great deal - then we're going to terminate NAFTA and we're going to create new deals.

  Donald Trump

  Deals, New Deal, Ifs

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.

  Russ Feingold

  Thinking, Agreement, Would Be

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Rights, Agreement

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• Take a look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever made by any country having to do with economic development. It's economic un development as far as America is concerned.

  Donald Trump

  Country, America, Looks

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.

  Donald Trump

  Numbers, Michigan, Statistics

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity.

  Kathleen Brown

  Country, Opportunity, Law

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• The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Cold War has been radically transformed. All of the institutions that preserved peace and promoted global trade will be weaker - NATO, the EU, NAFTA - and US relationships with other countries will change, too.

  Anne Applebaum

  Country, War, Order

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we don't get the deal we want, we leave NAFTA and start over to get a much better, a much more fair deal because right now, we're a one-way highway into Mexico, a one-way highway .

  Donald Trump

  Starting Over, Mexico, Want

  Source: time.com

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• [Bill Clinton] approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Bills, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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• When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

  Collin Peterson

  Opposites, Two, Three

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Don't forget, a lot of people want that to happen because they make a lot of money by taking money out of this country. Those deals [like NAFTA] are very good for a lot of people.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Want

  Source: time.com

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• If I win, day one, we are going to announce our plans to renegotiate NAFTA.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Plans, Ifs

  Source: time.com

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• In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn't she made the [trade] agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective.

  Donald Trump

  Agreement, Talking, Years

  Donald Trump's speech at the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate hosted by NBC News' anchor Lester Holt at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• You know that if you [Hillary Clinton] did win, you would approve that [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and that will be almost as bad as NAFTA. Nothing will ever top NAFTA.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Partnership, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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• We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.

  Donald Trump

  World, Want, Disaster

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Your husband, [Hillary Clinton], signed NAFTA, which was one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry.

  Donald Trump

  Husband, Clinton, Worst

  Source: time.com

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• [Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want certainty. They do not want to see a disruption in trade. He's promising to rip up NAFTA, redo NAFTA. He's not going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP trade with Asia.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Rip, Talking, Numbers

  Source: wwd.com

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• In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Jobs, Thinking, Borders

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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

  Jill Stein

  Support, Bills, Misery

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Jobs, Know How, Suspicious

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• Our jobs are being taken out by the deal that Hillary Clinton's husband signed, NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever. Our jobs are being sucked out of our economy.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Husband, Taken

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• NAFTA, signed by her [Hillary Clinton's] husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.

  Donald Trump

  Husband, World, Disaster

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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