Political Quotes

“I wanted to take the floor briefly to say a few words in opposition to the Simpson substitute and a few kind words about S. 4, that we have had on the floor, now, for some long while. It was not too many days ago that we all watched the Olympics. The Olympics are a lot of fun to watch. They are interesting. They are going to get your competitive juices flowing. The Olympics have events in which, at the end of the events, the contestants do the best they can and they either win or lose. If they win they get a medal, if they lose they get nothing. It is a very simple concept: Winners get medals, losers go home. But it is not just on the athletic field that there is competition in this world. We are involved in an Olympics of sorts. We are involved in a competition that is a pretty intense, keen--tough competition in the economic arena. It is not a competition that produces medals. The winner of the economic competition produces jobs and opportunity. The losers lose jobs and opportunity. That is the way the economic Olympics works. If you win you grow; you produce opportunity and strength for your country. If you lose you diminish; your economy shrinks. What has happened in recent years? As I said the other day, when I went to school I just got up in the morning and understood we were the biggest, the best, the strongest, the most. We won just by competing in the morning. That was the economic strength of the USA.”