Political Quotes

“Well, they're manipulating their currency. They're devaluing it so that the exports coming into the United States are artificially cheaper than they would normally be, already with benefits of no EPA, no OSHA, no regulations. But in addition to that, they manipulate their currency, devalue it to make those exports landing on the shores of the United States even cheaper. Now, all of these unfair trade practices have cost the United States 2.8 million jobs in the last 10 years; 1.9 million of those are manufacturing, and 100,000 in Ohio. When manufacturing jobs pay more, there's more intellectual property spinoff, better benefits, better pension. All of this comes together with an issue that we're facing back in Ohio, and a philosophy in the country that is basically saying, if the middle class just made a little bit less, the country would be better off; we'd finally fix these problems. That's what's happening with S.B 5 and S.U. 2 in Ohio, where we have a Republican administration taking on the teachers, the police and the fire, and saying they make too much money, and it's because of them that we have these huge budget issues, when really, they're the last bastion of the middle class, and they run into burning buildings, and they go out and they take care of us when we're in a dangerous situation, or they teach our kids, or they clean the public restrooms, or they clean the restrooms in the schools. These are people who serve us, all of us as a country.…”