Political Quotes

“Mr. President, despite what was just said, I am not in the pocket of something called grocery brokers. I am not here showing for something called grocery brokers. I am here to stand up for military and military families. I want the record to show that. I don't even know what grocery brokers are. I know what a grocery store is because my father ran one, I worked in one and learned a lot from the kind of values my father ran his business on. Let's talk about the DOD-mandated report that we did last year when we discussed this. The report acknowledges that privatization would not be able to replicate the range of benefits, the level of savings, and the geographic reach provided by the commissaries while achieving budget neutrality. DOD is continuing its due diligence on privatization. It is still assessing the privatization of all or portions of the commissary system. What I worry about is cherry-picking. ``Oh, we are going to privatize.'' They are going to do it in the lucrative markets, in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, but right now our commissaries, owned by the United States of America for the troops defending the United States of America, are required to operate where the servicemembers are, even when it would not be economically beneficial from a commercial standpoint. Go ahead with this privatization myth, fantasy, or delusion that they are not going to cherry-pick.…”