"You’ve seen the helpless huddled around trash fires. Think that will get any better? Think automation will just go away and leave us all alone? What if it does? What if I’m president and make synthetic intelligences and robots illegal—usher in a new wave of factories and manufacturing? Think that’ll bring jobs back?  No. All it would do is manufacture products a hundred times more expensive than automated imports. So, I ban imports then, make this a closed system. You’ve bought yourself a trade war; all the printers are German, so goodbye to cheap hands and feet, goodbye to body replacements. The stem-cell miracle cures are Japanese, so goodbye to cancer therapy and dementia inhibitors.  No, the genie is out, and that’s why I’m running for office. There’s no time for infighting if we’re going to get through this."