Political Quotes

“Perhaps, Madam President, I owe the Senator from Massachusetts an apology. Perhaps it is true that he knows better than these high-tech companies whom they ought to hire and when they ought to hire them. Perhaps his effectively granting to the Department of Labor the determination of when a layoff is a layoff and when it is not, when a replacement is an appropriate replacement and when it is not, will be dealt with entirely benignly and will not harm any of our international competitiveness. But, Madam President, I think not. I believe that these companies are better judges of their own needs than is the Senator from Massachusetts or the Department of Labor. And I am convinced that, looking around us, we can see how well this system has worked for the last 10 years, as evidenced by the dynamism and the growth of the American economy matched by no one else. Let's extend what already works rather than destroying what already works. Let's be optimists and not pessimists.”