Joseph Robinette Biden

“ I was kidding these guys before.
This is American labor. And I said from the beginning of my campaign, throughout my whole career: The middle class built this country, and labor built the middle class. And I think we have an incredible opportunity to make some enormous progress in creating jobs — good-paying jobs, Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage jobs — to rebuild the infrastructure of this country in a way that everybody knows has to be done. ”

“ We are so far behind the curve. We rank something like 38th in the world in terms of our infrastructure — everything from canals to highways to airports to — everything we can do, and we need to do, to make ourselves competitive in the 21st century.
And so the Vice President and I are looking forward to this meeting, and we’re going to have a good conversation. And I think, you know, American workers and the whole economy is going to grow in a way that we haven’t seen it grow in a long time. ”

“ Don’t they want to help people with nutrition? Don’t they want to help people be able to pay their mortgages? Don’t they want to help people get their unemployment insurance? Don’t they want to make sure that people are able to stay in their homes without being thrown out of their homes in the middle of this god-awful pandemic? What don’t they like?And the truth of the matter is, the polling data from last night, and all the polls you’ve all done — they come from you guys ”