Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This is a subject I know a little bit about because my family actually has been in the business since 1953. I find it unique that really just inside the Beltway we're able to pick and chose winners and losers, and we're able to tell people, you know what, you're not able to drive what you want to drive, and you're not able to use the source of energy that you want to use. You know why? Because we know better. I tell you what: the track record here doesn't show me that you really know better--a $16 trillion business in the red, and it continues? I would look at the President. I think he has got a war on wheels. The big thing about America is you were always able to pick the car you wanted to use. You could drive it anywhere you wanted. You could do anything you want. In this country you can leave here and drive to California if you want. You don't have to worry about it. This amendment only asks us to do something that's common sense. I know that's hard to understand here. I have been here for 20 months, I'm still trying to figure it out, and I've pretty much got it down now. When you take things away from people and replace them with something that they don't want, let me tell you what happens. When you raise the price of a car, what it does is take off the ability for somebody at the entry level to buy a car. Now, the unintended consequences in this town are absolutely astounding. We talk about the loss of jobs.…”