Political Quotes

“Americans would make it if we made it in America. We'd have those middle class jobs. That's where it is. Mr. Ellison, thank you very much. I know you've got a plane; you've got to get back to Minneapolis. Thank you so much for joining us. This is part of the Democratic agenda. This is something we've been working on now for well over 2 years, and we call it ``Make It in America.'' This is rebuilding the American middle class. This is about the American middle class coming back. Over the last 20 years, we've seen a decline in American manufacturing. In the early nineties, we were a little more than 19 million, almost 20 million, Americans in the manufacturing sector. Those were middle class jobs, where you can go to work, earn a living, live a middle class life, buy your bass boat, take the kids on a vacation. Today, we're just over 11 million middle class manufacturing jobs in America. So looking at this dismal situation, a couple of years ago, shortly after I arrived here, we began looking at what do you do about this. Why did this happen? Why is it that the American manufacturing sector declined? We did our studies. We did the economic analysis. But mostly, we looked at public policy. We looked at the laws of this land.…”