Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to echo the comments of the Senator from Vermont who has been discussing and debating and critiquing and understanding these issues of job sourcing as well as anybody in this institution. I am incredulous that we are fighting to bring this legislation to the floor, this legislation which will help us rebuild our industrial base, which will help us create, enlarge, strengthen the middle class, which helps us with our budget deficit and our trade deficit and will help us again become a country that knows how to make things. In my State of Ohio we know how to make things. We know how to make chemicals and paper and cement and steel and autos and aluminum and glass. We led the Nation in many of those things. Yet look around and we see what has happened in our country. The bill we are debating today is about helping Americans, not appeasing the Fortune 500, which is what the Republicans are doing tonight. It is about saving jobs. It is not about padding corporate bonuses. As they have done again and again over the last year and a half, my Republican colleagues are selling out the middle class. I wonder if my Republican colleagues have met people who have lost their jobs to China; if they know anybody who has seen a plant close and they know what it does to the family. They lose their job, they lose their health insurance, they sometimes lose their house. They have to explain to their teenage children: Sorry, we are going to have to move.…”