Political Quotes

“When somebody tells you something is very complicated and you do not understand it, do not believe it. There is a very simple, cogent, important, urgent reason for this bill: We need to save jobs, we need to create jobs, because if we do not, at the rate we are shedding jobs in this country, we are going to be headed for not a deep recession but perhaps even worse than that. My friend who is presiding pointed out that 3.6 million jobs were lost last year. How can anyone possibly turn away from that fact? Saturday, I spoke on this bill and the need for it, and I had a picture of 1,000 people in Florida showing up at a job fair for 35 firefighter jobs--1,000 people. It looked almost like a rock concert-- all these young people trying to get in line and fill out the forms for these jobs. The police had to come in--everyone was calm--just to make sure it was an orderly process. My friend from Montana pointed out that history will judge us on how we act right now.”