Political Quotes

“I grew up in a small town called Summit Mills in southwestern Pennsylvania. That town is mostly Amish. And so as I grew up in that community as a young man, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 years of age, I worked in Amish farms, I worked in Amish sawmills, I worked and learned carpentry with my friends the Amish. I worked in their maple sugar camps. I understand their way of life because I lived it with them. I know that there is no danger. I also know that if they do not employ their children, it does not mean that they are going to employ someone else, it means they are going to work that much longer and that much harder themselves or they are not going to make that much more money. They are going to in fact have to live with less. In my district now, the 4th District of Pennsylvania, in Lawrence County, the Amish live there, they are quiet people, they do not drive cars, they do not listen to radio or watch TV. But what they do is when their children are finished with school at the eighth grade, they teach their children how to make a living. They in essence are the trade school themselves.”