Political Quotes

“Well, it takes some public investment. That's what I worry about and I talk to our Republican colleagues about. My concern really is this national narrative that there isn't anything that the government could spend money on that would be a good thing--it's all bad, any spending at all. So that is a bad narrative to operate from when you're trying to say, hey, here's the public-private partnerships that we want to see, as I said in my opening. So the public-private partnership with NAMII in Youngstown, the Additive Manufacturing Institute, public-private partnership; a lot of companies, defense companies--companies like Siemens. So here is the investment in Youngstown. Now there is the building that was refurbished was an old warehouse--and that's great--in old downtown. Now there's other businesses looking to locate. They say well, we want to be around the innovation that's happening there. So for an older industrial area, fantastic for us to have that opportunity. Then Siemens comes in, and Siemens donated $440 million worth of software to Youngstown State University to create that pipeline. You can see how just that little public investment is driving all of the private investment that's not just going to help our region--the tech belt from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, to Akron and Youngstown, that whole region--but transform throughout the entire country. Everyone will benefit from this. So you begin to see that pipeline that you can create.…”