Political Quotes

“I think about my constituents in the IFPTE who work at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. I think about 20 years ago, I guess, the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard was low-performing. It was not great. There was the BRAC Commission to determine if we were going to get rid of some of these bases and installations, and quite reasonably, people were looking at Pearl Harbor as one of those to possibly get rid of because it was so low-performing. They have, in the great tradition, by the way, of--after Pearl Harbor was bombed and they quickly built a fuel storage facility and rebuilt ships in, like, months when it was expected that it would take a couple of years, what they did was literally miraculous and caused us to win the war. Without it, we wouldn't have won the war. Those guys dug in, understood there was a need for improvement, and now it is the best performing naval shipyard. Are they woke? Are they DEI? What are we doing here? I want every American to share our sense of outrage on behalf of the nurses and the firefighters and the technical workers and the welders and the boilermakers and the TSA agents and the Coast Guard men and women. These are patriots. By the way, some are also in a cubicle pushing paper. That paper probably matters. It might be your VA benefits. It might be your Social Security benefits. It might be your ACA subsidy. Nobody likes a big bureaucracy. I am a Kaiser member.…”