Political Quotes

“I am delighted to be back on the floor once again. I won't take a whole hour here, but I wanted just to talk about something that is so very important to America and, really, to the future of this country. I like to start these discussions with what are we all about? What should we really be thinking about? I find myself often going back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt during a very difficult time in America's history, the Great Depression. He put forth a principle, if you would, a values statement of what he was about and really what this country could and should be about. He said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. It is a values statement. It is a statement of what I like to believe I am here for, to deal with this profound, important issue in this, another period of stress for the American family. We often find ourselves here on the floor, and I do this almost all the time, talking about this subject, the subject of Making It in America.…”