Watch live as Senator Josh Hawley takes the Senate floor to deliver his maiden speech ↓https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1LyGBAZQWqjKN …
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"Over the last forty years, our economy has worked best for those at the top: the wealthy, the well-educated. If you have a job in Silicon Valley or an expensive and prestigious degree, this economy has worked for you."
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"But if you want a life built around the place where you grew up, if your goals are not to found a tech startup but to carry on the family business, to serve on the PTA and in your local church, well, you’re told you’re not a success. And you’re on your own."
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"Being a free person, being an American, isn’t just about what you can buy. It’s about the pride that comes in supporting a family. It’s about contributing something of worth to your community. It’s about being able to look a neighbor in the eye and know that you’re his equal."
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"We need not just a bigger economy, but a better society. We need a society that offers rewarding work for every worker who wants it, wherever she is from, whatever degree he might have, whether they hope to start a business or to start a family."
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"Liberty is more than selling or buying or the right to be left alone. Liberty is the ability to master our own fate and as a free people, to set our own course of history. That’s the promise of the American revolution. And we will renew it for our day."
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"This is not the work of a day or a season. It is the work of a generation. We will make it the work of this generation, and so do our part to see the success of liberty in our time." –Senator Josh Hawley
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