Political Quotes

“I do not like the American people being referred to that way. One of the other gentlemen on the opposite side of the aisle this morning referred to our citizens as 'these people.' Now I hear our citizens being referred to as people who are receiving funds that are going down a rat hole. The American citizens are not rats. The money that we are appropriating through good public policy is not money that's going down a rat hole. As a matter of fact, he knows, if he knows anything about this crisis that we're confronted with, that not only have we bailed out the biggest institutions in America that are too big to fail with billions of dollars that we loaned to them--and I didn't hear anybody talking about that money 'going down a rat hole' or 'those people' or 'these people.' Let us be a little bit more respectful as representatives of the people in the way we describe our public policy here. I don't consider that credible leadership, Madam Chair, and I would ask the gentleman to refrain from referring to the citizens of this country in that way.”