Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this resolution because the American people know that the biggest threat to our modern democratic society and free market economy is not some socialist bogeyman, it is Republican leaders in this Chamber, people who want to call every federally funded program that Americans depend on socialism just to scare people and position themselves to cut and gut the benefits that people count on. Go back and look at the decades' worth of transcripts and see what Republicans call socialism to scare people--Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act. They even call free public school education socialism to scare people. This vote is a sham. We have heard about Cuba a ton. My mother came here from Cuba in the late 1960s with my grandmother and my aunt. I won't let their story be used to gut the benefits that our people have earned and deserve. This vote has nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with gutting the programs that millions of Americans have paid into and have earned. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Flood).”