Political Quotes

“And I don't think anybody's of the illusion that somehow a coalition like this is going to agree on every issue. But what happened in Ohio was that there was a prioritization of what really matters, of what are the fundamental issues that it means to be an American, and what's the recipe that America always had that led to our success. It wasn't an accident that we jumped the Soviet Union in the race to space. It was a concerted effort on behalf of the government, private industry and the people in the country. And we had this recipe that was investments and infrastructure and research and education and making sure we had good regulations in the financial industry. And we were the world power for a long, long time, and we still are. But we've seen the decrease in wages or stagnant wages for 30 years, and attacking the workers now to say, as they were in Ohio, that it's your fault. You're making too much. There was a great placard at one of the rallies. The guy said, I make $30,000 a year, I have a Master's Degree and I'm the problem. So this is the kind of coalition I think we need. I think it gets to, hopefully, a new alternative vision for the country and for our government which, to me, is it's not about government being too big or too small. It's about the government working.…”