Political Quotes

“I think when you speak to individual people, you understand it. I want to share a handful of letters from constituents. It seems to me that our Republican colleagues--the people who consistently voted no on something as simple as extending unemployment benefits--some of them view unemployment as welfare, when it is called unemployment insurance not unemployment welfare. When you have a job, whether you live in Detroit or Columbus or whether you live in Dayton or Toledo, you pay into the unemployment insurance fund when you are working, and you get assistance when you are not. That is the whole point of unemployment insurance.”