Political Quotes

“as businesses and our economy restructure--a natural occurrence of the business cycle--workers in our country have done better overall. "Overall," however, does not mean everyone has done better. Many have not, and those are the people for whom the overall benefits of restructuring or even the so-called temporary nature of the unemployment is of little comfort because they want to work and provide for their families but they do not have a job. Yesterday afternoon, the Senator from New Jersey was very loudly and strongly decrying the outsourcing of jobs, and he made, I believe--I did not hear all of his statement--a very compelling case. At the same time, the firm he was associated with announced last fall it intended to establish an Indian unit with 250 employees working on operations in technology. Now, how does that square with not outsourcing? That is something perhaps we should discuss in a hearing or further debates. But I just came across an interesting article from Tom Friedman, certainly not with a Republican base, but I think a very good New York Times international analyst.”