Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Good for engaging me in this colloquy. I want to talk briefly about this number that has been put out there. He is asking the question: Will we rise to the occasion? I am going to give the bad news first. This is like in ``The Matrix,'' the first version, where they give you the red pill or the blue pill. The red pill is reality. The blue pill is you can continue on in your slumber. I am going to propose a different pill, and it is a black pill. The black pill, I would suggest to you, means that reality is the awful truth. The awful truth here is we know that we are not going to rise to the moment. Why do we know that? Because in the context of everything you just gave us, I want to talk about that supplemental that has been proposed by the Senate. We have already passed out of this body a $14.5 billion supplemental package for Israel. We found a way to pay for it. It goes to the Senate. They don't bother to take it up. They don't want that. In fact, one of the Republican appropriators over there said: We don't do that; we don't pay for supplementals. Wow. You know what? That individual was correct. It had never been done before. We did it, but they don't want to do that. Instead, they want to leverage a controversial spend of $61 billion for Ukraine funding by leveraging what Israel needs, our good friend in the Levant. That is what they want to leverage. You know what they throw in there, as well?…”