Political Quotes

“I again rise to talk about the importance of fairness. In this country we have given the United States Postal Service a monopoly on delivery of mail and universal mail service. None of us disagree with that. In fact, all of us appreciate the wonderful gains that have been made over the past years in terms of customer friendliness and in terms of efficiency, and we are not here to jeopardize that today. But, in fact, the United States Postal Service has decided that they are going to expand their operations and get into services and provide services in which the private market already exists. As they do that, they have used, in the international forum, special prerogatives that they have to negotiate sweetheart deals with other countries in order to bypass Customs, both saving time and money. What does that mean? That means that our hard-working Americans here in this country, members of the teamsters, that deliver the packages around this country and that depend on the solvency and the growth and the opportunities that our private carriers are providing, that their jobs are in jeopardy.”