Political Quotes

“If we tell the big lie enough times we will believe it ourselves. If we tell it more, we will have others believe it. It is interesting how this 1 million, 2 million, 30 million, 10 million, figure has been kicked around all day. As a matter of fact, in 1989 when they got the figures that they needed in order to do exactly what I am offering today, CRS said that there are 250,000 at minimum wage. That is the people we are talking about but none that are working today, because I grandfathered all of those. Now is the time when we have to think a little beyond those who are employed. Now is the time we have to think about the unskilled. We have to think about the poorly educated. We have to think about the teens, and we have to think about the senior citizens. What is it that we can do, now that we raise the minimum wage, to make sure that employment is available for them, to make sure they are given an opportunity to improve those skills, to improve their literacy, to be able to be citizens who can be employed and who can make their way up the American dream ladder?”