Political Quotes

“last night I had the good fortune to spend some time with the President, along with Michael Bennet and others. It was worth commenting on that meeting with the President about the address he gave a week ago to the Congress and to the Nation. He addressed Congress and the Nation and described the challenges facing families in America. Wages are far too low, the cost of education is far too high, and there are simply far too few jobs. Each of these challenges places another stumbling block in front of Americans striving to enter the middle class, as well as the middle class trying to do their best to hang on to their status as part of the middle class. The middle class is being squeezed. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is being squeezed really hard. Unless we open the doors of opportunity, every child in this Nation-- our grandchildren--will no longer be able to do what we expect our grandchildren to be able to accomplish. Every child in this Nation--our grandchildren--will have to work longer and harder than we did just to get by, let alone just to get ahead. Yesterday I read a story with interest. It was a long, well- researched story in the New York Times. It was in the business section. That piece argued that the richest families and the most successful corporations in America should be just as worried about these trends-- the shrinking middle class--as the Presiding Officer and I are.…”