I know that we have very hard choices to make, how Federal dollars are spent.

Indiscriminate and unthinking budget cuts seeking a short-term improvement in our deficit will leave the country's economic power at the mercy of the rest of the world's economic power.

We just didn't become the envy of the world because of the things we made and the country that we built.

I voted against NAFTA. This isn't in my script, but it still makes me mad, because I knew at the time that it would cause, in our rural counties, where we have only garment makers and sneaker makers, to close down.

We must redouble our efforts to 'make it in America.' Manufacturing is critical, and it's critical to the national security.

I don't think people appreciate that manufacturing is this country's principal source of R&D and innovation.

That is the history of our country and that was the history of our country, its not right now, which is why we have to change it.

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I guess I am just skeptical that I don't think there is a real hunger here for us to solve anything.

I was never able to get AT&T to put blocks on our accounts to stop third-party charges.

Why don't we just finish the job?

I have looked at the--I read a book the other day and it talked about how we industrialized America without subsidies.

I think the technology here--excuse me, the--I thought the goal was to use less energy.

I would like to find one coal company that is being subsidized.

I want to know what subsidy is going to coal.

Why aren't we doing it?

I still think what I have heard were a lot of larger firms, a lot more records; but smaller firms are--I am trying to understand what their point is.