Political Quotes

“I think about that we have this trade policy in this country now that it is sort of every man, and I say man, every-man-for-himself trade policy, what can the wealthiest corporations get out of these trade deals, forgetting the workers, forgetting our communities. Instead of this every-man-for-himself trade policy, we need to understand we are all in this together, and when we have this kind of job loss as those bishops in Central America understand what it means to their communities and where they are the losers, these trade agreements also have obviously caused great hardship in our country. When a factory closes in North Carolina, a textile plant or a steel mill closes in Ohio, or a chemical plant closes in New Jersey, what does that mean to those families and what does that mean to those schools and what does it mean to those children putting pressures on those families because their parents are unemployed and cannot find work and their schools are underfunded and all of that?”