Robert Lighthizer

brain surgeons and astronauts. Secondly, if you look at manufacturing, it employs about 80% of American engineers. It accounts for about 90% of private sector R&D. It disproportionately accounts for productivity gains.

So if you go right down the kind of things you use to measure your economy more and more, manufacturing throws off about eight or nine jobs for every job in manufacturing, and these are good jobs. So – and finally, you need manufacturing to have innovation. You need manufacturing to defend your country. Without manufacturing – and that doesn't just mean on this national security issue.

So if you go right down the kind of things you use to measure your economy more and more, manufacturing throws off about eight or nine jobs for every job in manufacturing, and these are good jobs. So – and finally, you need manufacturing to have innovation. You need manufacturing to defend your country. Without manufacturing – and that doesn't just mean on this national security issue.

So if you go right down the kind of things you use to measure your economy more and more, manufacturing throws off about eight or nine jobs for every job in manufacturing, and these are good jobs. So – and finally, you need manufacturing to have innovation. You need manufacturing to defend your country. Without manufacturing – and that doesn't just mean on this national security issue.

It doesn't just mean being able to make bombs and submarines. It means being able to make steel and automobiles and batteries and solar panels. You have to make all those things to have – and semiconductor chips. Right. To wage war or to deter a war from happening, which is probably really our objective. So these people who think we're post-industrial are just fundamentally wrong.

It doesn't just mean being able to make bombs and submarines. It means being able to make steel and automobiles and batteries and solar panels. You have to make all those things to have – and semiconductor chips. Right. To wage war or to deter a war from happening, which is probably really our objective. So these people who think we're post-industrial are just fundamentally wrong.

It doesn't just mean being able to make bombs and submarines. It means being able to make steel and automobiles and batteries and solar panels. You have to make all those things to have – and semiconductor chips. Right. To wage war or to deter a war from happening, which is probably really our objective. So these people who think we're post-industrial are just fundamentally wrong.

And once again, they don't really – it doesn't bother them who owns America. It doesn't bother them, the distributions in the country. And it doesn't bother them that we're following them behind technologically. What they're thinking about is, yes, but we're optimizing consumption.

And once again, they don't really – it doesn't bother them who owns America. It doesn't bother them, the distributions in the country. And it doesn't bother them that we're following them behind technologically. What they're thinking about is, yes, but we're optimizing consumption.

And once again, they don't really – it doesn't bother them who owns America. It doesn't bother them, the distributions in the country. And it doesn't bother them that we're following them behind technologically. What they're thinking about is, yes, but we're optimizing consumption.

Well, that's a good question, one on which I think you and I have a lot of agreement, but on which I profess less expertise than I do on other things. It is – I think a lot of these people – Well, some of them just don't like the country because of our history for various – they'll take up a data point in our history and say that means we're bad. A lot of them take it for granted.

Well, that's a good question, one on which I think you and I have a lot of agreement, but on which I profess less expertise than I do on other things. It is – I think a lot of these people – Well, some of them just don't like the country because of our history for various – they'll take up a data point in our history and say that means we're bad. A lot of them take it for granted.

Well, that's a good question, one on which I think you and I have a lot of agreement, but on which I profess less expertise than I do on other things. It is – I think a lot of these people – Well, some of them just don't like the country because of our history for various – they'll take up a data point in our history and say that means we're bad. A lot of them take it for granted.

But once again, I'm not an expert on that. I certainly agree with your conclusion. It's troubling to me people who are – Not only economic globalists, but sort of geopolitical globalists. They don't realize that there's a force that wants to take over the world. Indeed, there are lots of them. And those forces, if they succeeded, would be very bad for America.

But once again, I'm not an expert on that. I certainly agree with your conclusion. It's troubling to me people who are – Not only economic globalists, but sort of geopolitical globalists. They don't realize that there's a force that wants to take over the world. Indeed, there are lots of them. And those forces, if they succeeded, would be very bad for America.

But once again, I'm not an expert on that. I certainly agree with your conclusion. It's troubling to me people who are – Not only economic globalists, but sort of geopolitical globalists. They don't realize that there's a force that wants to take over the world. Indeed, there are lots of them. And those forces, if they succeeded, would be very bad for America.

A lot of us who were sort of united in this – In this Cold War, particularly in the early years, it kind of brought the country together. We realized we were in a Cold War. Indeed, I think we're in a Cold War, a second Cold War now. But I think there's just more fifth columnists than there used to be. A lot more, a lot more.

A lot of us who were sort of united in this – In this Cold War, particularly in the early years, it kind of brought the country together. We realized we were in a Cold War. Indeed, I think we're in a Cold War, a second Cold War now. But I think there's just more fifth columnists than there used to be. A lot more, a lot more.

A lot of us who were sort of united in this – In this Cold War, particularly in the early years, it kind of brought the country together. We realized we were in a Cold War. Indeed, I think we're in a Cold War, a second Cold War now. But I think there's just more fifth columnists than there used to be. A lot more, a lot more.

Well, I mean, so I basically, you know, people say, why do I think the way I think? And some people say it's because you're from Ashtabula, Ohio, which was one of the places that was decimated, one of a million.