Political Quotes

“I will take another few moments to talk on a separate issue that centers on a topic that has been the subject of a lot of debate and a lot of discussion on the Senate floor and elsewhere. It is the overall topic, the phenomenon of outsourcing. Critics contend that a company's effort to deliver a product or service more cheaply and efficiently to the American consumer is hurting our economy and hurting America's workers. Indeed, this has become fodder for sound bites that I think are not justified and thus want to take a few moments to talk more broadly about what outsourcing is and what it is not. I should begin by starting with the flip side of outsourcing and that is insourcing. What is 'insourcing'? What is this phenomenon of insourcing? Well, it has been a company such as Nissan opens a plant in the United States and thereby creates high-paying jobs for American workers to the benefit of those American workers. In fact, that is the very thing that happened in Tennessee when, in 1980, Nissan opened its first plant in Smyrna.”