Thomas Perez in ABC This Week interviews during 2016

On Free Trade: Go after Chinese companies dumping steel here in the US

Q [to Perez]: Let's take a look on Trump on trade, and there hear your take?

TRUMP [videotape]: I have seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and it's total devastation.

PEREZ: When I listen to Donald Trump talk about trade or anything else, he talks about slogans; Hillary Clinton talks about solutions. Look at where Trump manufactures his clothing lines, they're not here in the US.

Q: But is the solution no TPP or pushing through TPP?

PEREZ: Clinton has been clear about her opposition to TPP. We need to reward businesses who are making jobs here at home, and punish businesses who are taking jobs overseas. We make sure that we have tough enforcement, and build upon the enforcement regime of the Obama administration to go after Chinese companies dumping steel here in the US. Those sorts of tough measures, along with investments in our human capital, that's how you get things done. It's not simply slogans, which is Donald Trump, it's solutions.

Source: ABC This Week 2016 on Veepstakes candidates Jun 26, 2016

On Jobs: 75 months in a row of private sector job growth & 14M jobs

I think it's important to point out where we were, where we are, and where we need to go. When this president took office, we were in the worst ditch of our lifetime. And under the president's leadership we have climbed out of that, 75 months in a row of private sector job growth to the tune of over 14 million jobs. We have a lot of unfinished business. There are still too many people who aren't feeling the wind that is at our back.

The key moving forward here is to build on that progress and build an America that indeed can work for everyone, and not simply a few at the top. And that's what Hillary Clinton is about, a message of inclusion and opportunity for everyone. Breaking down barriers building bridges, not walls. An infrastructure plan is not building a wall along the Mexican border.

Source: ABC This Week 2016 on Veepstakes candidates Jun 26, 2016

The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews during 2016 (George Stephanopoulous interviewing candidates for 2016 races). Click here for other excerpts from ABC This Week interviews during 2016 (George Stephanopoulous interviewing candidates for 2016 races). Click here for other excerpts by Thomas Perez. Click here for a profile of Thomas Perez.
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