Political Quotes

“And, I believe, unleash a new economy. I mean, we are strangling the economy right now because we're not making those kinds of investments. Again, when you look at our competitors--because I'm from northeast Ohio. We play a lot of football, and there's a scoreboard. America is not going to win every game, but we'd better be in a position in which, in the global economic competition, we are competitive, and we know what makes us competitive. I'm not saying it's all about making money. A lot of this stuff that we're talking about is quality of life. We won't get into health care and preventative maintenance or anything like that, but we have human beings in Virginia and in major towns who are stuck in traffic for 2 hours in a commute in and out of a city. We're not investing in the high-speed rail, which would be another job creator and good for the environment and a new industry, and it would help develop and spread new technologies. So we are not leading right now. We have status quo. I hate to say this, but we have a lot of people who want it to be that way. They want the Congress to be dysfunctional because they don't necessarily like government. You don't have to be enamored with government, but you do have to recognize that there is a role to be played here.…”