Political Quotes

“I just want to drill down on why the profit motive is so dangerous to public service. If you are in the business of trying to figure out where to drop a Starbucks or whatever, you have got to figure out where the people are, right? You would not drop a Starbucks in a place where it is, you know, a 300-person town. Fair enough. You don't have to drop a Starbucks there, but you do need a health clinic somewhere around there, and you do need a public library somewhere around there, and you are going to want a fire station somewhere around there. And if everything becomes a question of profitability and arithmetic and ROI, what is going to happen is that rural communities are not going to get what they need because, if you do that arithmetic as if you were a private sector investor, I promise you that the only place anything makes any sense to do it is in the cities, and that is what they are going to do. They are going to eviscerate public service across rural America. You know, I think the Senator from Connecticut knows this: I care very much about NOAA, the National Weather Service. Part of Project 2025 is this idea that we should privatize NOAA. Like, these people launch satellites; provide us with data; and then people can make, I mean, basic plans of what they are going to do that day. But aviation depends on it; farming depends on it; shipping depends on it.…”