Political Quotes

“Congressman Garamendi, I want to thank you for your leadership coming from California. And my dear, dear colleague Tim Ryan from the eastern quarter of Ohio, what a privilege it is to be here with you as well and to be a voice for we the people--we the people, not just the superrich people, not just the people running the six biggest banks in the country that just took the rest of America to the cleaners, but Americans who speak for the vast majority who, like that chart states, want a better deal for America. We want investment in America. We want to make goods in America because we know, when we create here and we make here, we create jobs here and we create real wealth here for everyone, not just the privileged few. It's really an amazing fact to think about that General Motors, when I was growing up, was the biggest employer in the country, and northern Ohio just hummed. Plants had 14,000 workers, 10,000 workers. Now you're lucky if a plant has 1,200 workers, and you see shuttered plants around our country. Thank God for the recovery package and what was done to resuscitate and refinance the U.S. automotive industry so that other countries can't eat our lunch, that they can't eat our investment capital and all of the investment that still exists around this country, the millions of families and retirees that depend on a healthy automotive sector. When you think about it, today, Walmart is the largest employer.…”