Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman. Madam Chairman, when the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When the law and the facts are against you, yell like hell and call your opponent names; and that is what we are seeing here. This is a good law that we are proposing. The facts are on our side. And I have got to hand it to the gentleman from Georgia--crib- collapsing, baby formula-poisoning Republicans--you have done a good job, but let's go back to the facts. Get rid of the rhetoric, and talk about the facts. The number one fact is that America is out of work. The chairman mentioned that. The gentleman from Kentucky, Andy Barr, talked about people out of work. This country needs jobs. Now, you have accused us of being against the American worker. We want American workers; we want people to have jobs; and to be an American worker, you have to have a job. We can talk about the wages, but when you are unemployed, there is no wage. You talk about the American Dream, owning a home. It's not anymore. It is just having a job. And 14 percent of our gross domestic product is absorbed by Federal regulations. Now, some of those are good regulations. We are not down here on the floor wanting to repeal some safety regulations for cribs. We are not trying to loosen the regulations on baby formula. We are attacking--and let me say that there are good regulations; there are bad regulations; and then there are some really ugly regulations.…”