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"Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."

"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen."


"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."


"Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties."


"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."


"Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions."


"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."


"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."


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