Political Quotes

“If I might just add to that, it is my understanding-- and I get this from the University of California-Davis--that they are losing their new Ph.D.s to other countries, particularly to China and to India, because those countries are not only increasing their total research but they are also providing these very bright, innovative, forward-thinking Ph.D.s with a full laboratory and all of the support that they might need to continue to conduct their research not only on the issue of health care but also in all of the sciences and technologies, from high technology, energy, and so forth. So we really need to get on it. My final point is here twofold. First of all, if we are going to build this economy, there are five things we have to do consistently through time. And they require public investment. First of all, education. You have got to have the best educated workforce in the world. Secondly, you have to have the best, most advanced research because that is where the future is. That is where the future economic growth will come from. You need to make the things that come from that. You need to have the infrastructure, and you need to think globally. We are not doing that. The budgets that have been put forth by our colleagues on the Republican side go exactly the other direction. They cut educational funding, beginning with early childhood education. They cut the funding for research. You see it here. Tomorrow, we are going to take up the new budget.…”