Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I think that there's unanimous will on both sides of this Chamber to take care of the uninsurable people because of preexisting conditions right now, but this side is willing to address that on stand-alone legislation, or it would have already have been passed, unfortunately. I am surprised they keep pounding on that over and over and over again. Yesterday, in Ohio, the President said the Democrats needed courage to pass his national health care plan. Sadly, as we speak, leaders across the aisle are meeting behind closed doors to invent a creative way to approve the President's health care plan without requiring Members of the House to take an up-or-down vote on the actual bill. The legitimacy of something as controversial as the health care bill would be further clouded by such clever parliamentary maneuvers. That's not courage. That's malfeasance. It's an absolute betrayal of the public trust, and it would represent an unprecedented abuse of power that would take this Nation down a dangerous path. We're a Nation of laws. When these laws are not convenient, you shouldn't simply ignore them. We should follow them, regardless of the outcome; otherwise, everything about our democratic Republic is at risk. ____________________”