Political Quotes

“The fact of the matter is that this provision is going to be extended. And you can vote for Mr. Neal's motion to recommit. I guess it is against your creed to vote for it, so you can vote ``no.'' But you will vote later. And it may be a few months from now, it may not be until after the election. I think it would be better to do it now, if not now then in the next month. So don't scare, Mr. Tiberi, the small business people in your district. Tell them what the reality is. We are going to extend this. But we are not going to make it permanent unpaid for. It hasn't been done before for good reason, including the need to review it now and then, and also to take into account the cost. I think what the Republicans are doing, to kind of use an old slogan, an old way of saying it, you are giving hypocrisy a bad name. This is contrary to your budget that you voted for. It is contrary to the Republican Ways and Means tax provisions put together under the leadership of Mr. Dave Camp. What is going to happen is, when you add all this together, you have an astronomical addition to the debt--$614 billion, climbing, if you follow this path, to $1 trillion. So, I think there is no choice here to avoid hypocrisy, or if you want to continue the hypocrisy on your side, vote for this. We are not going to do that. This is a bad idea to proceed this way.…”