Political Quotes

“I'll take a lightning minute here. It really comes down to a question of: Where do you stand? Who do you stand for? It's very, very clear. If there's ever a dichotomy and a clear opportunity to see where you stand, it is in the Republican budget. Let's be very clear. It terminates Medicare; gives seniors a voucher that is worth perhaps half of the cost of insurance; takes $700 billion out of Medicaid. And that is, as you said, the long-term care for seniors in nursing homes. And it continues the tax cuts for people whose income is millions, billions; continues the tax subsidies for Big Oil--$4 billion, $5 billion a year to companies that have made over a trillion dollars in the last decade. And just in this quarter, Exxon, $10.7 billion; Oxy, $1.6 billion; Conoco, $2.1 billion. This is one quarter, 3 months of earnings. Billions and billions of dollars. And then they want to continue. Where do you stand? Do you stand for the working men and women, the seniors, those people that need to be able to get health care, or do you stand for the very, very rich and the big oil companies? The Republicans have made it clear. There's a difference here between where we stand as Democrats and where they stand as Republicans.”