Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I suggest that all of us need to take a good long look in the mirror and see who it is that can change the future. There is no sense in talking about what happened in the past. The past is the past, and we cannot reclaim it. We can just deal with it. We have a huge problem on our hands today because we have allowed the technology to leave; we have allowed the production to leave; we have allowed the product to leave; and then we come back and say now we have to do something to get it back. This may be the bill that does that. I don't know. I know from certain States, this is a must-have for some of our colleagues. It is a must-have for us to remain competitive. We are in a global economy. I can tell you this: I wish this was the same bill that we had proposed back when General Motors was facing bankruptcy because we know this body--not us, we weren't here--lent them the money to stay alive, and they paid it all back in full with interest. This is not that same process, and that is why we are so caught, trying to figure out what we should do to face this part of the business. What can we do here? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.”