Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight, and have chosen not to attend the Congressional Baseball Game, because I think I have an important message that needs to be heard. I rise to elevate an economic and humanitarian issue that is manifesting itself across Ohio, our Nation, and our continent. Millions upon millions of workers, many landless workers essential to getting America's work done in agriculture and other sectors, live and toil in an eerie, shadow existence. These workers often are exploited due to our broken immigration and legal systems, which afford them and their work no respect. Our beloved father, Steven, would say: ``They are caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea.'' Let's take a peek inside who some of these workers really are. These workers dare to climb skyscrapers and install the steel beams and pour concrete across our country, one slip away from death. They embrace harsh work circumstances, going into the brutally hot Sun in the south and west, picking your vegetables and fruits for 12 to 16 hours a day at high season. In our vast tobacco fields, they work from sunup to sundown, picking off flowers from tobacco plants in the blistering 110-degree heat as their fingers and hands numb from the nicotine and their sweaty sunburned bodies turn ripe for melanoma skin cancer, and they have no health insurance.…”