Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and thank him for his leadership on this issue and many other issues that he's been working on while we've been serving on the Judiciary Committee together. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about an issue that is important to our society, and that is access to higher education. Our Nation's economic competitiveness depends on our ability to educate our next generation. We compete with nations all over the world for business, and our competitive advantage is in our education. We're not going to compete on low wages. There are people who'll work for much lower wages than we'll work for in the United States, and so we're not going to win the battle of a race to the bottom on wages. We're not going to win the battle by requiring workers to work near their coworkers. If you can work across the hall from your coworkers, if you have a computer, a modem, a fax machine, a cell phone, if you can work across the hall, you can work across the globe. So there's no urgency to have people located here in the United States. And if you can manufacture goods anywhere in the world, you can have them delivered anywhere else in the world, so you don't have to be there to be close to your customers. There used to be a time where if you wanted to build a manufacturing plant, to get financing it had to be here in the United States. Now we have worldwide banking. You can build that plant anywhere in the world.…”