Class Quote by Chris Hayes

Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.

— David Brooks

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get…

— Vaclav Smil

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

— Tim Bishop

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't…

— Jennifer Granholm

Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are either gone…

— Eli Broad

I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That…

— Rick Santorum

We can't have jobs created in America if China is making all of our products.

— Donald Trump

It does the American economy no long-term good to only keep the big box factories where we are now assembling 'American' products that are…

— Peter Navarro

What we have seen for a very long time is large corporations shutting down plants in this country, plants that are often profitable, in…

— Bernie Sanders

I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.

— Bill Foster

We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth.

— Paul Ryan

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow