Political Quotes

“Madam President, I was in the Chamber and heard Senator Sanders' speech. I appreciate his passion about globalization and what he and I--it brought back--and I spoke to him after he spoke. It brought back to me the memories of standing shoulder to shoulder--he in his second term, I in my first--against the North American Free Trade Agreement and then a few years later standing shoulder to shoulder with him in opposition to PNTR, Permanent Normal Trade Relations, with China. And we know what that meant, especially in my State and especially in the industrial Midwest, especially in places that the Presiding Officer represents and places like East St. Louis and downstate Illinois and so much of the industrial plants that were steel, especially east of Chicago and Indiana and Illinois. We are on the verge of a big win for Ohio, a win that will create jobs, will bring down prices, and bring home supply chains. As a kid growing up in Ohio, I walked the halls of Johnny Appleseed Junior High School with the sons and daughters of union workers: electricians, electrical workers at Westinghouse, sons and daughters of autoworkers from General Motors and machinists from Ohio Brass and carpenters and pipefitters and electricians who built our city and service these large companies. But by the time I graduated from Mansfield Senior High School, those plants were shutting down one after another. Why? Because corporate America wanted cheap labor.…”