Political Quotes

“If I might take up, after interrupting you, some of the things that you were talking about. Down through the years, from the very earliest days of this country, there has been a joining of the government and the private sector to accomplish, really, the building of America. And it's been done in many, many ways. I was startled and surprised and frankly, very, very happy when Ms. Schakowsky brought that document in from George Washington's administration about the establishment of industrial policy that placed the American government in synchronization with the then-new manufacturing program industries in America. You talked about the mill towns. They didn't just happen. They happened because there was a government policy working with them, those entrepreneurs, to create these new businesses, these new jobs. And down through the centuries, more than 2\1/2\, almost 2\1/2\ now, we have been able to use this synergy, this government working with the American public, the private sector, to create this incredible country we call America and really, to create the American Dream that all of us possess or have participated in. Today, we're in a discussion, if you will, with the American public about whether to continue that coordination of the public governments-- State, local, Federal governments--working to achieve a goal in the private sector. There's a different vision out there that basically says, get out of the way. Get government away and things will go well.…”