Political Quotes

“first, in terms of jobs and job training, this morning the President of the United States unveiled a proposal to double the number of Americans who would receive job training assistance from the Federal Government. The initiative reflects the President's commitment to help people get the training they need, they require to find new jobs and better jobs. It builds upon an earlier proposal by the President of the United States announced in his State of the Union Message in January to help community colleges train an additional 100,000 workers for industries that are creating jobs in this country, to bring these job training programs to people who need the education and the job training, and to use our community colleges, expanding on the tremendous resource they provide today. As we all know, our economy is changing and changing fast. It is being transformed in so many ways. That is a great source of strength and adaptability, that flexibility to changing times both here in this country and around the world. Yet, at the same time, as we increasingly realize, this transformation, this adaptability, this flexibility in our economy--these changes in our economy--almost by definition result in a dislocation, a loss of jobs for some individual workers. That leaves us with a responsibility that we on the floor of the Senate must address, and we have addressed in part, but we have not fully addressed.”