Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday on the floor of the Senate I told the story of something that happened in Lordstown, OH, a community not too far from Youngstown, in the Mahoning Valley in northeast Ohio 1 week ago today. This story was a celebration of the first car coming off the line in the Lordstown Chevrolet-GM plant, the car the Chevy Cruz. It is a high mileage car, I believe the highest mileage car GM ever produced. It is a relatively inexpensive car. They expect it to be a huge seller all over the United States. It is a good economy car with a lot to it that recommends itself. I am not here to endorse the car or even endorse the company. I am here to say that this celebration was a direct result of what the Presiding Officer and others in this body and the President of the United States did a year and a half ago. Turn the clock back to the beginning of the Presiding Officer's service in the Senate in early 2009. President Obama had just taken office. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. The banking industry almost collapsed. President Bush had begun the bailout of the banks to make sure they did not collapse. President Obama continued working on this issue. We know where the auto industry was at the same time. Sales were down 40 percent in the auto industry, 1 million jobs were at risk of being lost, on top of the 8 million jobs that had already been lost by the time President Obama raised his right hand to be sworn in on January 20, 2009.…”