Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have had so much good news in Ohio and across the country over the last few weeks--rising wages, record job growth, a million jobs in 2 months. Intel is bringing 10,000 new good-paying manufacturing and trades jobs to Central Ohio. That facility will be built by union workers-- electricians, carpenters, laborers, pipefitters, and other workers of the skilled trades. Hyperion, a fuel manufacturer, is opening the largest factory built in Columbus in a decade, creating 700 jobs. GE Aviation with Boeing signed a new deal exporting planes built with next-generation jet engines developed in Southwest Ohio, supporting thousands of Ohio jobs. As I was flying into Columbus with Senator Portman a couple of weeks ago to join Intel to announce those jobs, I was thinking: Today we are finally burying the term ``rust belt.'' For too long, corporate elites on the coast have used that outdated, offensive term--a term that demeans our workers and devalues our work. Now Ohio--the center of the country, the heart of the industrial Midwest--leads the way in the next generation of manufacturing. The State that founded the auto industry and gave us the Wright Brothers is today making the most advanced chips that go into cars and phones and appliances. All of this is made possible because we are putting American workers at the center of our economy.…”