Quotes by Lori Wallach

“[During back-room negotiations over NAFTA,] everything was up for sale, ... The president was the one signing the checks, but Daley was the one negotiating the amounts.”

“History has been made in Seattle, as the allegedly irresistible forces of corporate economic globalization were stopped in their tracks.”

“They need to go back into the existing agreement and repair the rules that limit a countrys ability to have environmental safety and human rights laws.”

“That a member of Congress who is supposed to represent one of the U.S. states hardest hit by NAFTA job loss, and whose constituents care deeply about poverty in Central America, would become a deciding vote to expand NAFTA to six more nations is unimaginable, given the damage the NAFTA model has proven to cause to U.S. working people and Mexicos poor.”

“By acquiring Costa Rican gaming operations, giant European firms now have a platform from which to launch attacks on federal, state and local gambling restrictions in an effort to secure an even greater share of the diverse and lucrative U.S. gambling market. This is a threat that was brought to the attention of all three Utah congressmen.”

“It is very clear that if this document is going to determine the future course of the WTO, the majority of people in the world would be worse off.”

“Theres nothing to it, ... The actual text of the [CAFTA] agreement is whats binding and the text of the agreement is a catastrophe.”

“It didnt have any of the actively anti-environmental provisions of this [CAFTA] agreement.”

“What people in Washington are saying is that Fitzpatrick simply could not stand up to the pressure of the Republican leadership when they demanded that he vote with them, meaning that on such a vital vote for his district, he prioritized the Republican Party marching orders over the interests of his own constituents and his own principles. People in Pennsylvanias 8th district have to worry that if Fitzpatrick caved in to GOP leadership pressure on CAFTA, what might he do on a whole host of other issues on which he has committed to his voters but which are not in line with the Republican leaders positions.”

“None of Congressman Fitzpatricks statements about why he voted to support CAFTA make sense. His constituents deserve a straight answer even if it is an admission that he does not have the backbone to stand up to what everyone knows was extreme pressure by the Republican leadership to do as they ordered rather than what Fitzpatrick believed or promised.”