Political Quotes

“Thank you, Dr. Gingrey. I would certainly like the time. The American people need to understand that the purpose of ObamaCare, the bottom line really was expressed by the President himself when he said he wanted everybody in this country in one pool. What's that mean for everybody? It means socialized medicine. That's what all IPAB and all these cuts and everything is geared to do is to force doctors out of private practice, make them employees of the Federal Government, make patients subject to some bureaucrat here in Washington and tell them what kind of health care they can get. And the Democrats' plan is to deny, to delay, and to destroy Medicare by letting it go broke. But I want to just add, Dr. Gingrey, to your other ``d,'' the demagoguery that we see. I want to give three examples because the facts have really been, by and large, hidden from the American people. AARP did an ad, a new one, talking about all the places where the Feds could cut spending, like treadmills for shrimp--well, I certainly want to cut that out--but instead, Republicans insist on cutting seniors' Medicare. Well, that's not true. AARP and the Democrats want to cut Medicare by destroying it, letting it go broke. An ad put out by the Gender Project, a liberal nonprofit group, shows an elderly woman being heaved off the side of a cliff, with her being in a wheelchair, and asks: Is America beautiful without Medicare? Ask Paul Ryan and his friends in Congress.…”