Political Quotes

“Madam President, I have had, over the last couple weeks around my State of Ohio, a number of conversations with workers and management both who work for auto companies, from foreign-owned Honda in central Ohio to the big three auto companies, which are very involved in the Ohio economy--Chrysler, GM, and Ford--and a number of conversations with auto suppliers: those companies that are less well known, companies such as Magna and Johnson Controls and companies that are smaller than that that are so-called tier 1, 2, or 3 suppliers, those companies that sell components into the manufacturing supply chain that ultimately end up in a Jeep Wrangler made in Toledo or a Chevy Cruze made in Lordstown, OH, near Youngstown. In almost all these conversations, these companies, these executives, and workers are simply incredulous that the auto rescue is still being debated--that it worked or it did not work. One just has to come to Ohio, and not just northern Ohio, where the assumption is that is sort of where the auto industry is in Ohio--it is true, but it is also in the rest of the State--but people all over Ohio and all over the whole industrial Midwest and I think all over the country understand the auto rescue worked.…”