I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.
Anand Mahindra
Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.
Andrew Scheer
I don't think that if Justin Trudeau came back from the NAFTA negotiations with a new clause - 'Oh, by the way, there's going to be a new legislature that Americans will send members to that will pass laws that will bind Canada' - I don't believe Canada would ever go for that.
On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our role in our parliamentary system, we will absolutely point out what we think they should be doing differently. But when it comes to our relationship with the United States, we do speak with one voice.
Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.
Austan Goolsbee
Naftali Bennett and I have a method in life: We believe in seizing opportunities.
Ayelet Shaked
The governments that were in power before Naftali Bennett and I went into politics, before the Jewish Home party gained strength, were right-wing governments that carried on with the policies of the left.
Like so many free trade deals before and since, Nafta was sold as a massive opportunity for working people and their prospects. Forecasts spoke of hundreds of thousands of new jobs in all three countries. The reality could not have been more different.
Barry Gardiner
Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'
Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.
We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.
Chrystia Freeland
I would like to believe that TPP will lead to more exports and jobs for the American people. But history shows that big trade agreements - from NAFTA to the Korea Free Trade Agreement - have resulted in fewer American jobs, lower wages, and a bigger trade deficit.
Dan Lipinski
The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.
Denise Dresser
NAFTA was conceived to avoid discrimination against goods. A U.S.-Mexico treaty on immigration should be devised to prevent discrimination against people.
I have visited the cities and towns across America and seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton's disastrous NAFTA, just like she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization.
Donald Trump
Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.
Elizabeth May
Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
Enrique Pena Nieto
President Trump was determined to replace NAFTA from the day he took office. It reflected the old way of trade deals in which our partners shirked labor protections while American companies shipped operations and jobs to cheaper foreign locations. Our factories shuttered, our manufacturing shrank, and we grew more dependent on foreign suppliers.
Eugene Scalia
My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.
George P. Bush
The effect of Bill Clinton's NAFTA and Hillary Clinton's Colombian Free Trade Agreement has been devastating to Michigan and most of the rest of the country, and accounts for the appeal of Donald Trump.
Greg Grandin
The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.
NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.
NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.
A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.
Since its enforcement, NAFTA has been more than a trade agreement. It has made us think of ourselves as a region.
Let me first clarify that NAFTA is a trilateral agreement. The decision of walking away is not of Mexico or Canada. The decision of walking away is of the U.S.
NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.
We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.
E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.
NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico.
During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s.
In Illinois, we've seen job losses from agreements like CAFTA and NAFTA. Those agreements didn't help American workers - and they haven't brought improvements to the lives of workers in other countries, either.
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA.
We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.
I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.
It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.
Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.
If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.
I think a lot of scapegoating has been done on NAFTA. The reality is, a lot of the jobs have been lost mostly to technology. And that is something that happens well beyond the reach of NAFTA or any other trade agreement.
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.
There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
Hoosiers have seen good paying jobs leave our state for decades because of NAFTA and other bad trade deals from Washington. President Trump is using tariffs as a negotiating tool to fix these problems that have been baked into the international economy for decades.
The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.
During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.
