Jay Rockefeller: “No; the only difference we have is maybe broader than that, because I take it philosophically. I grew up in a very lucky…”

“No; the only difference we have is maybe broader than that, because I take it philosophically. I grew up in a very lucky fashion, unlike the Senator from Arkansas. Sometimes in private we joke about that, and we have a good laugh about it. But my great-great-grandfather came from somewhere in Germany. Nobody really knows what he was doing. And he came to this country because he wanted to be able to do something better, to have a better life. I find nothing wrong with that. I thought that, again, was what the Statue of Liberty was all about. My family has done well. Other families have done well. People not only do well in this country, they do well in other countries. Often people who do well in other countries want to come to the United States either for their own professional purposes or because they feel they can use the money which they have earned in other countries to better affect this country. That is one reason why people are investing. Is it wrong for foreigners to buy in the stock market? No. They are. It is one of the reasons they are doing so well; we are a good deal. What I am saying is, positively the Senator was wrong in his previous question about California, that the commissioner of corporations was totally unaware of this program.…”