Political Quotes

“the fact is this quarter trillion dollars of trade we had a trade surplus with Mexico before NAFTA that is now a turned into a trade deficit. We had a small trade deficit with China when the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) came to this body and when I came to this body that is now $120 billion trade deficit. The fact is we continue to have lost jobs in our State, even with some economic growth that has taken place in the last few months. Ohio and the Nation still are 2 million jobs behind what President Bush had when he came into office. There were 22 million jobs created during the Clinton administration. There is a net loss of close to 2 million jobs during the Bush administration. Now, today, Mr. Kerry came to Canton to talk about some of these same issues. Mr. Kerry's solutions are not more tax cuts for the richest people in society, the major contributors to the Republican party. His solution is not more trade agreements that continue to hemorrhage jobs overseas. His solutions are several things. First of all, extend unemployment benefits to the million people who have lost their jobs in this country, who have tried to find work and have not and had their benefits expire.”