Political Quotes

“For anyone who just fell off the turnip truck, Republicans in Congress have a new rallying cry--``We won't let them raid Social Security!''. . . . [Tom] DeLay asks us to believe that the Social Security trust fund is under assault by Democrats, and we must trust his party to protect it. I'd sooner entrust a lettuce leaf to a rabbit. Credibility surely matters. In probing the violence at Grandmother's house in the woods, whom do we believe, Little Red Riding Hood or the wolf? Here is one of those demonstrable facts of history: Had it been left to the Republicans in Congress, we'd never have had Social Security in the first place. Nor Medicare. He says: GOP House and Senate members invariably lined up in opposition to these social programs.”