Political Quotes

“I rise to make a simple proposal, which I deeply wish the Senate will accept and see the reasons for. This amendment would simply preserve the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program, which has been in place for a third of a century now, having been one of the great social inventions, one of those that come along from time to time to help a nation, in this case ours, resolve a legitimate dispute in which there are legitimate interests on either side, in the very best tradition of a democratic society. The conflict is elemental. When our Government enters a trade agreement with another nation or group of nations, as is increasingly the case, it undertakes to lower tariffs on goods coming into our country in return for lowered tariffs in other countries--lowered restrictions, access to markets, all the different arrangements that go into a multilateral world trading system which has emerged so exceptionally in the world, and of which we are the preeminent member, the largest trading nation in the world.”