Political Quotes

“I had not intended on speaking on this particular issue today but sitting back in my office listening to some of my colleagues speak, I had to come over here and I had to say a few words. As a Republican who supports labor a good deal of the time, as a Republican who voted against NAFTA, who voted for the antistrikebreaker bill, who cosponsored the family medical leave bill, I have got to respond to some of the assertions made by my colleagues on this side about what Republicans have done to working people in America. It was Bill Clinton who jammed NAFTA down the throats of this country. It was Bill Clinton who told us the side agreements were going to raise up the working conditions and the environmental laws in Mexico. Where are those side agreements, Mr. Speaker? And to all those rank- and-file workers out there, you ask your union leaders, what has this President done to enforce those side agreements? Zero, zilch, nada. The jobs are going south.”