Political Quotes

“We certainly can do it. We certainly ought to do it. Our predecessors have done it. There are 435 of us here in the House of Representatives, and the question is: Are we willing to do it? It can be done. This plan, GROW AMERICA, is fully paid for. Yes, some corporations that are skipping out on their taxes would have to participate, and they should. They ought not be tax dodgers. This is a very interesting plan put forward by our colleague John Delaney, a Representative from Maryland, that would take those profits that these corporations have stored overseas--profits that they have not paid taxes on in America--to repatriate, to bring that money back to America. His program would generate, over a period of 10 years, $720 billion to be used in public-private partnerships to build our infrastructure. There are many, many ideas about how this could be paid for. The President has laid out a plan not to raise the gasoline and the diesel tax, but rather to bring about some tax fairness, and corporations would be required to pay their fair share--all of it good. I suspect we have maybe another 5 minutes or so, but I want to bring up one of our favorite subjects. I am going to put this up. Here we are with the GROW AMERICA Act and all of the things that could be done. This is back to Make It In America. I love this photo. It is one of my favorites. I know, often, you travel on the train from New York down to Washington, D.C.--or back--right about now.…”