Political Quotes

“Well, one of the things that you were talking about--and I just started to learn more and more about this new additive manufacturing. And there's a center in Youngstown, Ohio now that's a regional center for additive manufacturing. So the old school manufacturing is you would cut things out, and they called it subtractive manufacturing. The new stuff is a printer that you have that would be like the printer you have in your office, except you pump material into it, and instead of ink on a piece of paper, it's a material that would make a component part. And the cost is down now to about $700 or $800 for these things. So this is the next generation of manufacturing. And I bring it up because the President put together a proposal, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, to partner with the private sector to create one of these innovation institutes. And he wants to do 15 more for a billion dollars. If you would see the activity going on in Youngstown, Ohio now, the companies that are partnering with us, with the private sector, with Carnegie Mellon, it goes all the way to Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, Youngstown State, University of Akron, Lehigh, Penn State, West Virginia--we've got to get Buffalo in this somehow. But the point is, public/private partnership to expedite the development of new technologies. And the President and his team get this. And Democrats, we get this.…”