Political Quotes

“But the point here is that our strategy of ``Make it in America'' includes a half a dozen different specific programs, one of which you talked about, which is the education system. Why in the world, when we need, as you just said, to build the ability of the American worker to compete, smart, capable, would we reduce the education funding? But that's precisely what our Republican friends have done. They've taken money out of the Pell Grants for college, very significant, Head Start. All of the Federal education programs are being reduced by the Republicans at a time when we have to build it. So if we're going to make it in America, we need a well- educated work force. This one up here we call trade. Listen, China's cheating. China is cheating on their currency. And no matter how creative, how competitive we are, how hard our workers work, it's virtually impossible to compete against China because of their currency cheating. The Democrats want to put on this floor, send to the President a demand that the United States take action, against China on their currency issue so that we could have a fair trade situation.”