Quotes from Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

If we have to talk to the devil to guarantee the safety and future of the Mexican people in the U.S., Mexico will talk to the devil.

I can't come back home with an agreement that will not be a win-win-win situation for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

The actions taken by the Cuban government with its new trade zone open up the potential of strategic investments from Mexico. Mexican companies are very excited.

The U.S. is a sovereign nation, and if the U.S. decides to build a wall on the southern border, it's their sovereign decision. We may like it or not.

We have to start a process of looking at what's next after we complete the modernization effort.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.

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.

A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

There won't be a law with sanctions, but Mexicans and Mexican consumers will know how to value those companies that are loyal to our national identity and those that are not.

There is an old tool that has become very handy that is called strategic patience, which is do not overreact in the short-term. Take your time. See what is the underlying, real message. And then, once the reality is represented by actions, then decide how you are going to react to those actions.

Free trade and economic stability do not, by themselves, guarantee success.

Since we don't use any type of currency manipulation schemes - we have a floating exchange market - we are very glad to consider any type of process that would stabilize the Mexican peso.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

The next generation of entrepreneurs are already named Martinez or Sanchez.

Toyota has 10 plants in the United States... and employs more than 130,000 Americans. If I were Mr. Trump, I'd treat them with more respect.

It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.

Mexico's government has made a strong commitment to boosting the country's competitiveness in global trade, and the Ministry of Economy recognizes that trade facilitation is a key element in achieving this objective.

If you throw obstacles at the relationship with Mexico, you would be shooting yourself in the foot.

The end-to-end value chain analysis proposed by the World Economic Forum has proved to be useful methodology, not only to identify trade barriers but also to highlight the importance of coordination among public-sector institutions.

Mexico is very well positioned in the IT sector, thanks to our closeness to North America and how things are being developed in Silicon Valley.

We are fed up with complaints that Mexico is stealing jobs from U.S. manufacturing. We are part of the solution that has maintained competitiveness for the U.S. versus China.