Political Quotes

“I yield a minute and a half to the distinguished gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott). (Mr. McDermott asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, a famous speech started, ``We will little note or long remember what we say here today.'' But the Bible says, ``By your deeds ye shall know them.'' Now, the Republicans have said that it's Christmastime. Kids are hanging their socks all over the world. And they're all getting up and hoping there will be something in that sock on Christmas Day. And the Republicans have something to put in it. They have a lump of coal. They're going to say to 160 million people, we're going to boost your taxes. Here's your Christmas gift, right? They're going to say to 2.5 million unemployed people, no unemployment benefits because it's only for 2 months and we can't-- there's every excuse in the book you can give, but when they get up on Christmas there's going to be coal in their socks. The working poor of this country are counting on that tax break. They've gone out and bought gifts for their kids, and they think they're going to pay for them because they have this tax reduction. And you're taking it away from them after they've spent the money on the Christmas gifts. That's your lump of coal to the middle class. Now, for the seniors, the lump of coal is, we're not going to pay the doctors. We're going to cut the doctors by 25 percent.…”