Stephen F. Lynch Quotes & Sayings

“I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.”

“As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.”

“Free trade should not mean free labor.”

“The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.”

“Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.”

“Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.”

“Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.”

“You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.”

“Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.”

“Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.”