Political Quotes

“Again, I want to thank you for your leadership on these issues and for bringing us together tonight to discuss this important issue. Hopefully it will be the first of many or a continuation of this discussion. But even groups like the United States Chamber of Commerce, they put out a report stating that we will lose $336 billion over the next 5 years because of bottlenecks, because of inefficiency in our infrastructure. You can't identify the problem without supporting a solution. My point is that Democrats and Republicans in this Nation should come together to support a robust nation-building program right here in America. It benefits American small businesses; it benefits returning veterans; and it has a measurable influence on improving this economy. The New America Foundation, as I mentioned previously, has a report, ``The Way Forward.'' It's not a right or a left group. It's a centrist group that is very prestigious and basically says, a $1.2 trillion investment in infrastructure--roads and bridges, sewer systems, water systems, the electricity grid--will create 27 million jobs in a 5-year period. It will create 5.2 million in the first year alone. That's 433,000 jobs every month for the first year. Can you imagine what the stock market would do if the jobs report came out next month and said that we created 433,000 jobs? Our economy is consumer confidence. We are all economic actors. When we're confident, we move; when we're not, we don't.…”