Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. I am John Garamendi from California, and I am joined by several of my colleagues here tonight. We want to go through a couple of things that are of the utmost importance to Americans. I had three townhalls on Saturday in California--it was about a 450-mile drive to get to all three of them--but at each and every one of them the concerns were very, very similar. The first overriding concern was the economy. In California, there is this desire to get the economy going. There is a pent-up energy in the people--in the businesses, in the small businesses, in the farmers. It's not just because it's spring and the almonds are blossoming--or maybe it's the ``a-munds'' depending on what part of my district you're from. It's that there is this desire to get moving forward. They keep asking me, What's going on in Congress? Why can't you guys get it together out there? And we explained what's happening here. We have been through five crises over the last 18 months-- manufactured crises, things that didn't have to happen. Each and every time, the entire system of America's economy and politics comes to a stop, and we lurch up to that fateful cliff, and then we move on but not with the kind of robust energy that this economy is capable of. We need to get this continuing resolution and all of these fiscal cliffs out of the way to get the economy moving, and there are some very, very good examples of why the economy is poised to take off.…”