Political Quotes

“Always my pleasure, Representative Schakowsky, to be with you. You are such a staunch advocate for the middle class, the working poor, the poor. You are a champion for the people, so I'm happy to be here with you and happy to share some time with you. But first I wanted to express the fact that last night I came in to do a Special Order on the situation happening in Michigan where a surprise attack, a sneak attack, by the right-wingers resulted in the passage of legislation which I won't refer to as right-to-work legislation, it's more appropriately named crush-the-union legislation. I came up last night to the floor to speak on that issue. {time} 1330 As I am prone to do, I use a lot of analogies, and so last night I used an analogy that some find offensive. And I certainly was not meaning to be offensive or use a derogatory term. Everybody knows what the N word is. The N word, Mr. Speaker, is used to describe a group of people. And the N word used to be fashionable, or it used to be socially acceptable to use the N word. But, now, we don't say the N word. We refer to that word as ``the N word.'' I had never heard of the M word, Representative Schakowsky. The M word is a word also that describes a group of people. It, at one time, had been commonly used as a descriptive term. It was, at one time, socially acceptable. But to my discovery, just within the last 12 hours or so, I have found that the use of the M word is no longer socially acceptable.…”