Joe Donnelly Quotes

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

There is a large change coming in the jobs of America and competition from abroad. We should prepare for it rather than let history overwhelm us.

Let’s export American products, not American jobs.

I am going to bring back our jobs to Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York and Michigan and all of America. And I am not going to let companies move to other countries, firing their employees along the way without consequence. Not going to happen anymore.

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They're going to start having to, if I'm president, invest in this country - not in China, not in Mexico.

We want to make America great again. We want to bring back our industry, we want to bring back our jobs from China and Japan, and by the way Mexico, which has taken so many of our jobs. And that's what it's about. I have not heard about these incidences.

Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.

Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to America in terms of making our product.

Among the responsibilities, we will be ending the bleeding of jobs from our country and negotiating fair trade deals for our citizens.

In America, we are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. They are taking our companies, they are taking our jobs, and our politicians, many of whom are stupid and many of whom are corrupt, are allowing it to happen. We're not going to allow it any longer.

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here in America.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.

Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.

Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

I am not a free trader. I am not a free trader. I believe an American worker who has worked hard and played by the rules should be rewarded. I don't believe that companies who take their jobs overseas should be rewarded with tax breaks.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

You can fire your workers, close your factories, export your jobs overseas, and get a tax deduction for doing it.

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

By the year 2000, sixteen million Americans will have jobs directly supported by exports. On the average, these jobs pay 13 to 16 percent better than other jobs in our economy.

The thing that we have to worry about is this protectionist movement that has reared its head again in this country

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

We support U.S. jobs, especially when those jobs are facing off against foreign competition.