Political Quotes

“every Senator, from every State, has witnessed the hollowing out of the middle class over the past few decades. Globalization and technology have changed the way that Americans work and compete. Productivity increased, but wages for the bottom 70 percent stagnated in this century, in this 20 years. Income equality spiked as wealth agglomerated to the top. The financial crisis and the COVID pandemic heaped additional hardship on middle-class families that were already falling behind. The changes in the world--the swirling changes, economic and social--have made it harder to stay in the middle class and have made it harder to get to the middle class. We Democrats feel an obligation to make it easier for those in the middle class to enjoy that middle-class life and stay there and for those struggling to get into the middle class to have those ladders so they can climb up to get there. These are exciting and fundamental times to be here in the Senate. In short, we have a lot to do to restore the fundamental American promise of opportunity and economic mobility--the faith that, through hard work, any American can build a better life for themselves, their families, their children, and then pass even greater opportunity on to their children. That is the American dream. It has been fading, and that has allowed demagoguery and nastiness and divisiveness to become too great a part of our politics.…”