Political Quotes

“Mr. Tonko, I really appreciate your comments. I know that the folks listening do as well. Madam Speaker, I think one of the important facts that we need to talk about tonight, as well, is the stark reality that we are in an election year, and in a few months our constituents are going to have a choice. Elections are, after all, about choices. And we have an opportunity here to present the choice that the American people are going to have to make decisions on. They can go back to the ways of the last 8 years prior to President Obama's inauguration in which the tax- cutting policy in America was focused exclusively on the wealthiest few and the middle class was essentially left out of the discussion. There was absolutely no focus on making sure that middle class tax cuts and job creation, targeted tax cuts and job creation would be focused on the middle class. I served in the minority and the majority during the Bush administration, and I can tell you that in neither 2-year period was there any discussion of how to get the middle class back to work, how to get small business back. Small business was never discussed under the Bush administration or the Republican leadership. Their focus was big business, corporate interests, as we saw with the collapse of Wall Street and, as a result, the collapse of our economy.…”