Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. It is not often that I come to the floor to argue a bill and to debate and nobody on the other side shows up to participate in the debate. I have been feeling kind of lonely over here. I guess that people are too embarrassed on the other side to come here and defend this legislation at this particular time, as we get ready to depart for what will be just about 3 weeks, while we are leaving dangling and hanging important issues, like a budget for this country that was promised to us back at the beginning of the year. It was supposed to be regular order. It was supposed to be that we are going to do a budget. After the budget is done and we have our top lines and bottom lines in place, then we will embark upon the appropriations process and we will pass all of the 12 appropriations bills for the first time in years and we will get back to regular order around here. They can't even produce enough votes to pass a budget. So what do we do then? We revert to trying to protect and coddle and make things easy for big multinational corporations that want to get bigger. They want to get bigger so that they can get a lock on the market, they have no competition, and then they can set whatever price they want to set and the American people are left having to pay.…”