Political Quotes

“Absolutely. I thank the gentleman from California for yielding, and I say to my friend from Ohio that it is good to get the band back together. It is really incredible that it has been 10 years. I don't really want to think about the birthday that I just had and where that puts me. I guess a few years after we started the 30-Something Working Group at least I and our former colleague Kendrick Meek from Florida passed the status of being 30-something, and we were 30-somethings in spirit while we were doing that for a little while. I am a little longer past being a 30-something now, but it is absolutely critical that we have an opportunity now to pass the torch, Mr. Ryan, to the next generation of 30-somethings who are focused on making sure that, as we go from generation to generation, as Democrats, we are focused on making sure about those cornerstones of a middle class life that we talked about 10 years ago, making sure that you don't have to choose between buying your groceries or filling your gas tank so you can get to work, which then, if you can't, would cause you not to be able to afford your groceries. Now, 10 years later, Mr. Swalwell--I had young children back then. Mr. Ryan was single, and now he has young children. My twins are actually 2 years from going to college, so the student debt crisis that has been looming and has existed and has overly burdened so many Americans is now something that my family has trepidation about.…”