Political Quotes

“It's about choices. It's about where do you stand. Do you stand with the seniors and Medicare and the continuation of Medicare and the benefits that they need literally to survive or do you stand with the Big Oil companies? It's very, very clear. Just look at the way the votes come down here on this House floor. Over the last 5 months, we've seen vote after vote after vote where the Democrats have suggested that we eliminate these subsidies, all of them, the subsidy to Big Oil, that we install the higher income tax for the superwealthy. We're not talking about the working stiff out there in the plant. We're talking about the superwealthy, those that have an adjusted gross income--that's after all of the deductions--of over $250,000. Take it to a million. But just raise their tax rate on that upper income above $250,000 3 percent, not talking about a huge increase, a 3 percent increase, and yet our Republican friends say, oh, no, we can't do that. We have to whack the elderly. We've got to go after the elderly. We've got to take away their Medicare benefits. This is unconscionable. It is terrible economic policy. It is unconscionable that anyone would make such a choice--give the wealthy more; take it away from the seniors. What would lead a person to do that?”