Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday at the State of the Union Address by the President, I asked to join me--each Member of the Senate gets a pass, a gallery pass for a spouse or constituent or someone--I asked Elizabeth Dandridge, a Head Start teacher from Cincinnati, to join me and she sat in the gallery--the first time she had actually been in the Capitol. She taught at Head Start for 10 years. Mrs. Dandridge isn't paid a lot of money. Unfortunately, we don't pay Head Start teachers and Head Start teaching assistants a whole lot more than minimum wage. It is important that people understand that there are a number of low-wage workers in this country. There is one thing I want to say before I yield to Senator Sessions. One of the reasons to increase the minimum wage is that it matters so much to those families who work so hard and get so little for it. President Obama said no one who works full time in this country should live in poverty, and he is absolutely right. The lesson of history is that 100 years ago this month Henry Ford made an announcement that he would pay every one of his workers--from the sweeper of the factory floor to the worker who assembles the autos--$5 a day. A lot of his business friends were outraged. They couldn't believe he was doing this. He wasn't necessarily doing it out of the goodness of his heart. I certainly don't know his heart. It was a good business decision.…”