Political Quotes

“I rise in support of the CRA that we will be voting on soon. This vote presents a pretty simple choice: Do you stand with American manufacturers and American workers or do you stand with China and do you stand with our continuing to lose our industrial base? I fought my whole career for fair trade. One of my first and proudest votes was against the North American Free Trade Agreement, as a Member of the House. We saw what that agreement did to Vermont, did to Ohio, and did to Kansas--and Senator Moran just spoke. We saw what NAFTA did. These trade fights are not a new fight. Some years ago--about 20 years ago--when I was a Member of the House, I wrote a book called ``Myths of Free Trade.'' The book wasn't exactly a bestseller. I can live with that. But telling the truth on trade has not been popular in this town--by Presidents of both parties, majorities in Congress, and corporate leaders and CEOs who were lobbying Congress. Essentially, these trade agreements sold out American workers. These trade agreements were signed or, at least, negotiated by American Presidents and voted for by far too many Members of Congress, lobbied by the most powerful interest groups in Washington. I remember that during NAFTA--there were two things during NAFTA, particularly.…”