Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Senator from Washington knows how much I admire and respect her. We have had great opportunity to work together in a very productive way, but what we have just seen from our friends across the aisle is not designed to actually get anything done. It was a show to try to claim political advantage and to try to create a narrative which simply isn't borne out by the facts. The facts are that these costly proposals are unfunded mandates designed to make it hard for Americans to find jobs or become employers and create jobs for millions of people working for a step up the economic ladder. What Americans need, rather than show votes, are more job opportunities, more flexibility at work, and the freedom to negotiate a schedule that works for them. Our friends across the aisle have been in charge and we have seen the results: an economy that grew last year at 2.2 percent--as a matter of fact, in at least one quarter it actually contracted. So we know what the fruit of these policies are because they have had their chances. Their policies will destroy jobs, smother innovative startups in job creators like Uber, and perpetuate the Obama part-time economy, which has left a shocking 6.5 million Americans in part-time work as they search in vain for full-time work--and, I might add, a 30-year low of the labor participation rate--the percentage of people actually in the workforce that are employed, people that would otherwise want to work.…”