Political Quotes

“Well, you know, there's the St. Lawrence Seaway that kind of connects it all as it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. But I wanted say, you know, many of us, all of us have come through very difficult campaigns in this political year of 2012. But what is wonderful about serving with the three of you is you keep the focus on jobs in this country, and the importance of making goods in America, and where wealth is really created, how we do that as a country, and what it takes to build a great country. I look at the St. Lawrence Seaway, and I think about Dwight Eisenhower, a great general, led our forces in Europe, and came home and decided that America needed to create the St. Lawrence Seaway so that we would unlock the potential of the Upper Great Lakes and the Lower Great Lakes. And you say to yourself, today, with some of the limited thinking that some exhibit--of course, no one in this Chamber would ever be accused of that, right?--but could we do the St. Lawrence Seaway again? I've had the great privilege of traveling out West--I think I've probably been in every State and almost every congressional district at one point in my career--and to look at the Hoover Dam. And as I admired the dam, I thought to myself, America has it in her to land a man on the moon and to create NASA, but here at home, our public works, do we have the vision? Do we have a vision big enough today, in the 21st century, to match what those who came before us gave to us that put this continent together?…”