Political Quotes

“according to Secretary Kennedy, the Trump administration is committed to building the most compassionate Department of Health and Human Services in the history of the United States. So I went to the dictionary and looked up the term ``compassionate.'' It means: ``a sympathetic consciousness of others' distress, together with a desire to alleviate it.'' Yet the proposed Republican budget would make historic billion-dollar cuts to the programs real Americans rely on. Instead of alleviating distress, this ``Big Bad Bill'' would actually exacerbate it. And late, late last night, House Republicans added even more distress to their Medicaid cuts, changes that would cut care and prevent access to care for millions of Americans; changes that would cut funding that ensures safe, healthy births for newborns; changes that will endanger our parents and grandparents who live in nursing homes. So I rise today and seek true compassion from my colleagues and ask in the words of the famous song: ``Where is the love?'' I rise today because I have been getting call after call, email after email, meeting with person after person, all worried sick about cuts to Medicaid. And I want to share some of their stories today. I want my colleagues to hear their names and understand the trade-offs they are making to support tax cuts for the wealthy, while failing to shrink the national debt. Again, I am going to say that again: while failing to shrink the national debt.”