Political Quotes

“they have all recognized, just like President Truman, that our country would not be where it is today without them and that we needed to get this done--and we did. I want to give you a little bit of a background and history of why this is so near and dear to me. My grandfather came to this country--this wonderful country, the United States of America--in 1900 as a baby. He started working in the coal mines at 9 years of age. So he was able to get a fourth grade education before he had to go help support his family. In 1927, he and my grandmother had four children, and my grandmother was pregnant with my uncle. So she would have had four and three- fourths of a child at that time. My grandfather would always tell me: Joey, we couldn't pay the bills at the end of the month. He said: I never did see any money because it was all script, and it went to the company house or the company store. So the old song lyrics, ``I owe my soul to the company store''--he truly did. He just said: We can't make it. He would go out, and he would tell people: We have to do better than this. We have no healthcare. We have nothing to look forward to and we can't pay our bills and we are working 6 days like dogs. He had a mule. Poppa had a mule; he had a buggy; and he had a carbide light. He would go in and have to do everything. He would have to, as he would say--he loved to say: Fire in the hole. He would always tell me that.…”