Political Quotes

“Congresswoman Kaptur, thank you for allowing me to join you and to join the distinguished gentleman from New York. We are on the floor often, but it is very special to come here tonight as I listen to you discussing the issues not only of Make It In America, but something you have been on--and, in fact, we have known Ohio to be the center point of manufacturing, the center point of production of what we call the raw materials, overlapping with our friends in the Midwest on steel production. We call Ohio the true salt of the earth and the underpinnings of America's economy. Again, they are very fortunate to have a Member such as Marcy Kaptur, who has never stepped away from the morality and the moral compass of allowing constituents to work and to fight for them having the opportunity to work and to create opportunities and jobs and manufacturing in Ohio. We thank you. We are joined, of course, by Mr. Tonko, who has never wavered from assisting his constituents, particularly facing the hurricane they had. I want to join you and pick up the populist chord, if I can. The President went to--I guess he listened to us, listened to you and went to Kansas and went to the place where Teddy Roosevelt, the man with the big stick, went. I think we need a big stick around here.…”