"If we turn the clock back just a little bit, the pools that were utilized in the CDOs and CDO-squared..."
"Oregon is one of 17 States where manufacturing makes up more than 10 percent of employment. It is a source of good-paying, stable jobs except when those jobs go to Mexico or Asia."
"One of the things that we keep confronting are nontariff barriers to American manufactured products."
"But how do you go about holding countries accountable that are creating barriers to favor their own companies to the disadvantage of the United States?"
"Well, I will conclude with one last question, and that is, up through about the mid-1970s, as productivity increased, the wages of working Americans increased."
"if you do not get those kids starting every day, obviously if you lose 4,000 smokers a day, you would be out of business pretty quickly"
"What we all have come to learn time and time again is that the issues faced in childhood very much set a course for a person's life and disproportionately so, so that they deserve a great deal of our ..."
"the loss of manufacturing jobs may well be one of the most profound impacts upon the well-being of our children."
"clearly children's play habits have changed dramatically."
"this represents a huge threat to the future of our children."
"school athletic extracurricular activities that were free... now have activity fees throughout our Nation."