Political Quotes

“Mr. Tonko, thank you very much. Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Higgins, thank you very much. As I was listening to the three of you and thinking my own thoughts, I'm excited. I'm excited for the prospect of America. I can see the opportunities that are there. I can see the policies coming together. And each of the three of you described specific policies that we could put in place. I don't know if we can get 27 million jobs from infrastructure. But I do know that we can get millions of jobs from an infrastructure program and, in so doing, lay the foundation for safety, from floods, fires, from other catastrophes that could occur. I know that in doing so, we can rebuild our manufacturing sector by using American-made products in that infrastructure program. I know that we can provide the jobs that Americans desperately want today--not just cheap jobs but real middle class jobs, as all three of you have described. I am excited. I am excited about the prospect of building America, coming home from the wars and building America, as happened when my father came back from World War II. America went after building. Ms. Kaptur, you talked about the St. Lawrence Seaway. You talked about the interstate highway, that system that President Eisenhower talked about. We are on the cusp of a new building in America. We have the wherewithal. We can finance it with really cheap money now. And we can use these projects to repay that money. It's a very exciting time.…”