Political Quotes

“And there's the voice from the central part of the heart of America from the great State of Ohio. We know that America can make it. This is still the greatest manufacturing center in the world, and part of our job agenda on the Democratic side is what we call Make It in America. The gentlewoman from Ohio very quickly pointed out several elements in that. I put this up while she was talking so we could think about it. Trade policy. We can't give away our jobs on trade policy. Taxes. We talked about the tax issues, corporations getting tax breaks for going offshore. Energy. We need energy security. We can't afford to continue to pay all of our hard-earned dollars to the petro-dictators of the world and the most dangerous places of the world. We need a domestic energy policy, a green energy policy, a clean energy policy, with the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs there. Labor policies. We talked about educating our kids. Bobby Scott from Virginia talked about the cuts that are in the Republican budget when we need to educate, re-educate and prepare our labor force. Education. In this budget that they just put forward are tremendous cuts to the Pell Grants that allow kids to go to school. Research. Again, Bobby, you talked about the research cuts, and the infrastructure we've talked about several times. This is all part of our agenda.…”