Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, one CEO of a major corporation said a couple of years ago, ``I wish I could locate my corporate headquarters on an island that is part of no country.'' He does not mind being an American when he comes to this institution for subsidies, for tax cuts personally or corporate tax cuts, but when it comes time to employing American workers or living under the sovereignty of this Nation, he seems a little bit less interested. ... Because of budget cuts, and because of increased imports, and because of poor trade laws, only seven-tenths of 1 percent of food coming into this country is inspected at the border, much less than that inspected anyplace else. That means one out of every 140 crates of broccoli, one out of every 140 crates of fruit, one out of every 140 boxes of any kind of food gets inspected at the border. It is a serious problem, and the gentleman from Michigan will tell us more about what all of this means with Fast Track.”