Political Quotes

“In my own hometown of Hickory, North Carolina, we have 47 hosiery mills, and they were being worked against substantially by imports from China and South Korea. We also have a little place called Catawba Valley Technical Institute, where we invested money to train people as to how to take apart a pair of hose and find out what the makeup of that hosiery is; in other words, if it is 60 percent cotton and 40 percent wool, they can find out for sure. We started checking the imports being brought into our hometown and found none of them matched what they said on the labels. So I called up a lady named Ms. LaBuda, who happened to be at that time the new Customs person in our Federal government, and told her about this. Within several days, I got a panicked phone call from a person that I had known for years who happens to own a couple of hosiery mills in Hickory, North Carolina. He said, ``Cass, you have to do something for me. I am in real trouble.''”