Political Quotes

“Mr. President, earlier this afternoon, I appeared with Senator Blunt, my Republican friend from Missouri, in front of Senator Rockefeller's Commerce Committee to talk about our bipartisan legislation with manufacturing hubs. It would promote new technologies to make our country a leader in advanced manufacturing. Let me illustrate by saying this: Along the Ohio Turnpike--from Toledo, to Lorain, to Cleveland, to Akron, to Youngstown--much of the auto industry grew, from glass that would go for windshields in Toledo, to steel in Lorain and Cleveland for the fenders and the hoods and much of the car, to rubber in Akron for tires--the world's leading tire manufacturer--to assembly in Youngstown, where today the Chevy Cruze is made. If you are on the Ohio Turnpike, you will see this huge plant with the big letters ``CHEVY CRUZE.'' If you have not been at an auto plant or you are not from Ohio and you may not have seen one, the expansiveness of this plant is pretty remarkable. Autos were assembled all along this turnpike. But the reason this matters--in addition to why it matters in the Presiding Officer's State of Connecticut and other places--is not just that the auto industry, the supply chain, creates jobs, but what happens when an industry sort of locates with a critical mass in a community. Because Toledo, OH, with the auto industry, had huge glass manufacturing, the University of Toledo had scientists who worked in material science and in glass manufacturing.…”