Bill Clinton: “Yesterday we had 10 or 11 people endorse the treaty, both Republicans and Democrats, including three Members from Ohio…”

“Yesterday we had 10 or 11 people endorse the treaty, both Republicans and Democrats, including three Members from Ohio, a Rust Belt State where we hadn't had any endorsements before; two from Michigan. Today we have five or six--we have six confirmed, and we have five who've already announced their endorsement today for NAFTA, all Democrats, all six of them. So we're making some progress. Perhaps the most remarkable thing that has happened today is something I just saw. The president of the Massachusetts Building Trades Council endorsed NAFTA with this letter. It's a real profile in courage. He said--this quote--he said, ``No longer can nations afford to build invisible walls at their borders because there are no national borders to free trade.'' And he basically said at the end of his letter that ``President Clinton is trying to improve on the status quo. His opponents, perhaps without knowing it, are defending the status quo.'' Leo Purcell, a pretty brave guy. I hope he's still got his job tomorrow.”