Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the middle class is the backbone of our Nation. Middle-class families sustain our neighborhoods and our economy and support our public services such as our schools and police and fire departments and libraries. Over the last 2 weeks--last week and the week before--I traveled extensively across Ohio and met with Ohioans who define the character of the American middle class. College students at the University of Toledo described their hopes and aspirations to become our next educators and entrepreneurs, community and business leaders, and civic activists. Workers at the 60-year-old General Motors plant in Defiance, near the Indiana border, described how they are ready to build the next generation car engines and rebuild the middle-class communities in which they work and live. In Cincinnati, workers at GE's historic Evendale plant--a Cincinnati suburb--represent the classic American success story: people working hard, getting ahead, getting paid an honest day's wage for an honest day's work. I met with veterans. Chairman Akaka allowed me to set up, in Cambridge, OH--in eastern rural Appalachian Ohio--a Veterans' Committee hearing. I met with other veterans in the Chillicothe VA Center and the Cincinnati VA Center--two terrific VA facilities--to meet with and talk to and understand better the services for veterans who return from war and who represent those values of hard work and fair play.…”