Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, this morning, the President is being lauded for a speech that stayed on message and was optimistic. Those accolades would be deserved if his actions bore any resemblance to his words. But, instead, we were subjected to a barrage of third grade sound bites, falsehoods, and half-truths, just like always. The President condemned the vandalism at the Jewish cemeteries. Yet, earlier the same day, he suggested that these anti-Semitic acts were a ``false flag'' operation possibly committed by Jews themselves; which is very similar, by the way, to what White supremacist talking points circulated by David Duke are all about. The President also condemned the racist hate crime murders in Kansas of an Indian engineer. But why did it take him nearly a week to break his silence? Didn't this act of domestic terrorism deserve a tweet? He didn't commit to doing anything about it until he was nudged by a tweet by Hillary Clinton. The President says he wants to fix health care, but all the House Republicans can agree on is to kick 30 million people off their insurance. Yes, Mr. Trump, we already knew that health care was complicated. It is good to know that you finally understand it as well. The President said he wanted to invest in women's health, but his own party is committed to defunding Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood offers health care to one in five women in this country. The President said he supports democratic ideals, but he won't advocate them around the globe.…”