Political Quotes

“Tracie from Fresno: In July last year I lost my job. I am a single parent of two children. At first I made cuts by not eating out or spending money on things we didn't really need. Then I had to give up my car versus being homeless. Now we take the city bus to school in the morning and back home in the afternoon. I look for work daily. I am a college graduate and have worked for 20 years. I need the unemployment extension to keep a roof over our heads and to feed my children. It is a scary situation to not know if your life will be tossed upside down at the hands of people that do not even know who you are. Tracie, we know who you are. I am painfully aware of who you are and painfully aware that my colleagues on the other side, who say they care, didn't vote to help Tracie. Again, if ever there was a time to focus on the differences between the parties, it is now. Whom are we fighting for? Today it is clear. Our Republican friends, to a person--it pains me to say--stopped a tax cut for 99.9 percent of the American people, and they stopped the extension of unemployment benefits for people such as Tracie--good, hard-working, patriotic Americans, many of whose families served in the military. I hope for better days in this holiday season. We are not going to give up. We are going to stand and fight. We are going to stay here. But today was not a good day for 99.9 percent of the American people. I want them to know why.…”