Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank you for the privilege of the floor and the opportunity to share some thoughts with my colleagues on the Democratic side. I was going to go to the tax issue which is before the American public. The President has cut a deal with the Republicans. And I know that on our side, we have some concerns about this, but I really think we need to spend just maybe a couple of minutes about what we just heard. We just heard the gutting of the health care reform program. Have no doubt about this, general public and the people out there: The program that was put together last year on health care is an effort that will be successful to provide health insurance for the 40 million to 50 million Americans that don't have health insurance and for the thousands each and every day that lose their job and lose their health insurance. The Republican Party is committed to gutting the health care program, and it's stage one. When they come into power in this House next January, they are going to begin a concerted effort of moving more and more wealth to the highest and the richest men and women in America that have already seen a quintupling of their wealth in the last 20 years. So let's have a very clear understanding of this. By gutting the health reform program, you will see stage one of the Republican effort to shift money away from the working men and women to those who are already fabulously wealthy.…”