Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have been on the floor quite a bit in the past several months talking about a topic I think the vast majority of Americans want us to focus on, and that is the economy. That is, in my opinion, something we don't do enough here, and certainly the current administration doesn't do enough. They never even seem to want to talk about the economy, and they do not because the news isn't good. When they do try to talk about the economy, they typically try to spin the facts and the bad news into good news. For the most part, as has become abundantly clear, when they do this, the media tries to repackage it, put a bow on it, and then the administration sells it back to the American public. Everything is going great, they tell us, or to use the language of the President's speechwriter and one of his chief spin doctors, in a recent New York Times magazine piece, he stated: We created an echo chamber. . . . They-- The media-- were saying things that validated what we had given them to say. So to put that in simple terms: We tell them our spin, they print it, and that is good. Well, with regard to the economy, I don't think many in America are buying it. And I am glad our Presidential candidates are finally starting to talk about this issue--economic growth for middle-class families. Secretary Clinton recently gave a speech on the economy where she mostly lambasted her opponent. She said that under Mr. Trump, the U.S. economy would be a disaster.…”