And of course my favorite is!!!

"If we buy the steel from Britain, we have the steel but the money is gone.

If we buy the steel in the United States, we have the steel and the money, too.

Such an advantage far outweighs a lower price for imported steel."

~Abraham Lincoln~

President Abraham Lincoln Summed up the sentiment especially well when deciding to purchase railroad tracks.




Here you will find a list of quotes from individuals relating to American Jobs and the US economy.

“If you're like me, when given the choice between buying a product made overseas and purchasing one with the "Made in U.S.A." label, you'll choose to support your fellow Americans. Many of us take great pride in making an effort to purchase products made in America, by American workers, using American parts. That's why the "Made in U.S.A." label is so important. Consumers look to it as a sign of quality, and they seek it out in an effort to help fellow American workers. American businesses use the label as a selling point and source of pride.”
~U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IO)

"I believe most Americans want to purchase American-made products, but they often don't have the information they need to make such decisions."
~U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD)October 14, 1998

“We want the entire world to buy American, because the best products in the world carry the label, “Made in the USA.”
~President George W. Bush, radio address, March 13, 2004

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
~Henry Ford

"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A Depression is when you lose your job."
~Ronald Reagan

"It is not the funciton of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
~Justice Robert H. Jackson, Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"Every job in manufacturing generates eight more jobs in other sectors like construction, wholesaling, and finance. If we don't have manufacturing in this country, we don't have those other jobs. We know that American living standards will fall if a healthy manufacturing sector is not maintained, especially in a national security-conscious post-9/11 world."
~Bill Canis, Executive Director of the Manufacturing Institute at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)

“We believe that people ought to be able to work and at the same time earn a livable wage. We don't want to see jobs taken away to other countries, reducing the opportunities for people in America to work.”
~U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL)

"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
~President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address

"There are 293 million people living in the United States. If each one would shift $20 a month in spending from foreign made products to American made products that would create 5 million new jobs."
~Richard Kemple, 2005

"Corporate greed is shipping American jobs overseas."
~Lou Dobbs Columnist - award winning television journalist

"The time for playing nice with corporate outsourcers and their enablers in government is over...a growing number of members of Congress see with their own eyes the devastating effect that trade policy is having on manufacturing jobs in their own districts... Congress must repeal Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China and develop trade policies that protect and create good-paying jobs in America."
~Bernie Sanders Member of Congress (I-VT)

"The United States should use its economic clout to shape trade policies to protect its manufacturing core and jobs that pay middle-class wages."
~Alan Tonelson Research fellow at the United States Business & Industry Council Educational Foundation

“Since the end of 2000, we’ve lost about 2.5 million manufacturing jobs… Companies have no loyalty to the country. Their loyalty is to the bottom line. Executives are making huge profits, and companies are detaching from this nation. The American way of life doesn’t matter anymore.”
~Jim Schollaert Director of Strategic Outreach for the American Manufacturing and Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC)

"Free Trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free Trade is a bright and shining lie."
~Pat Buchanan Writer, Economist, Former Presidential candidate

"I don't want to pull down American workers to Chinese standards. I want to raise nations up to where you have free trade among free people."
~Marcy Kaptur Member of Congress (D-OH)

"China has somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 front companies in the US, their sole reason for existing is to steal, exploit US techonology. China has an aggressive military modernization progam and we're concerned... and that's probably going to be one of the biggest challenges in the combination of the counterintelligence and technology security world in the next five or 10 years."
~Lisa Bronson Pentagon Technology Security Director

"Americas growing free trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us."
~Warren Buffett Second wealthiest man in United States

"Free Trade is a failure. It's time for tariffs."
~Howard Phillips Chairman of the Conservative Caucus, Former Presidential candidate

"American workers lose from the outsourcing of American jobs to cheap foreign labor markets"
~Paul Samuelson Noble Laureate Economist

Alan Greenspan Federal Reserve Chairman - Has come around to seeing America's growing trade deficit is a problem. After years of stunning silence on the subject, the Federal Chairman now says foreigners may dump dollars unless the U.S. brings its accounts into balance.

"That great sucking sound is the jobs leaving"
~Ross Perot Former Presidential Candidate - On North American Free Trade Agreement

"The global theory of free trade is siphoning off America’s wealth and bringing her economy to the level of others. The theory is displacing American workers who would otherwise be employed."
~George Malone Senator, Nevada[1958]

"The truth is, the free trade theory works only when climate, natural resources, and physical features are major factors. When wage rates, capital, and technologies are the major factors, the country with the lowest wage rate has a crushing advantage."
~Billy Pauly Educator

“The policies and practices of the Chinese government have had a destructive impact on world trade, and particularly on the US copper industry. Chinese Government ownership and control, preferential tax treatment, customs fraud, disregard for the global copper market, and currency manipulation are a lethal combination and have unfairly increased the cost of doing business for those of us who practice integrity in such matters.”
~Joseph S. Mayer President and general counsel of Copper and Brass Fabricators Council (CBFC)

"The 'New Economy' is being outsourced faster than the old manufacturing economy."
~Paul Craig Roberts Economist

"Free trade is a dimbulb British idea and those who believe it should be considered enemies of the country - Torys with an allegiance to a philosophy of a foreign power. From now on, we should spell "traders" as t-r-a-i-t-o-r-s so as not to confuse anyone. Free traitors are in the end, enemies of democracy. If they were not, they would welcome an open debate on the issues, not try to pass their legislation on a 'fast track' in the darkness of secrecy."
~Jonathan Larson Writer-Historian

"If we buy the steel from Britain, we have the steel but the money is gone. If we buy the steel in the United States, we have the steel and the money, too. Such an advantage far outweighs a lower price for imported steel."
~Abraham Lincoln President - Summed up the sentiment especially well when deciding to purchase railroad tracks.

"Free trade breaks up old nationalities… In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. Gentlemen, I am in favor of Free trade!"
~Karl Marx Socialist Revolutionary

"The theory is, free trade allows access to low cost consumer goods and therefore improve the standard of living faster than wages increase. Also, that workers who lost their jobs to imported foreign products would quickly find other jobs and that the trade deficit would decrease. That is, we are better off and have a higher standard of living due to free trade. Wrong, none of this has happened in America."
~Ben Miles Inventor, Farmer

"The U.S. has lost 3,000,000 private sector jobs in 3 years with no signs of a let up. In 2003, the payroll jobs were down to 130.3 millions, the lowest in 4 years. The average hours worked was 34; the lowest number since the government started keeping track in 1964. There are over 15,000,000 unemployed. The number of under employed is also huge. Not since the Depression have we lost jobs 3 years in a row. This was caused by Free Trade."
~Robert Davis Plant Manager

"The Japanese think the ideas of free trade are primitive nonsense. While we preach to them about free trade, they organize their industry. Even the sacred cow of free traders, the stock exchange, is routinely manipulated in Japan for the benefit of their industry. Industrial development is about planning, the antithesis of Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' of the market."
~Douglas White Director of Research

"The academic and economic elites only view the world as consumers, never as producers. Engaging in useful work is considered beneath contempt so the problems of production are certainly beyond scholarly consideration."
~Den Black Engineer

“He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be fore reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these.”
~Thomas Jefferson President