Political Quotes

“that is a fair question. I think that the budget that we are submitting, and one of the things I want to talk about and start off with is that it is not just a budget, and it is not just a set of values, and it is not just a set of priorities. But the President's own cabinet, six members out of 15 have been to Iraq to praise and laud the work of our reconstruction in Iraq. I am going to bring up a couple of things that they have said on their trips to Iraq, because I think it highlights not just the type of dollars we are investing, but what we are saying. My first is in October of 2003, Secretary Evans of Commerce, the Commerce Secretary said, and I quote from October 16, 2003: ``Americans need to come here and see the opportunity.'' This is about Iraq. ``This is great economic opportunity.'' Three months after that in Ohio, the President of the United States announces that he is going to have a manufacturing czar. Today, 5 months after that, that job goes unfilled; and since that time, 250,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in the United States. Yet Secretary Evans is over in Iraq praising the economic opportunity in Iraq; and yet here in the United States, a job for a manufacturing czar to oversee what has happened to the 2 million- plus lost manufacturing jobs in the United States has yet to be appointed.”