Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from South Carolina for yielding me the time. I don't actually have the words for this debate, so I had to bring something with me, Madam Speaker. What I brought are the very words that President Obama spoke from right here behind me in his State of the Union address in 2011. As you'll remember, we had just done this thing that we had all agreed on. I say ``we.'' My colleague from South Carolina and I were not in Congress at the time. ``You.'' This thing that you agreed on with the President and with the Senate to not raise taxes on job creators, why did you agree on that? Let's look and see what the President said. He said: We measure progress by the success of our people--by the jobs they can find and the quality of the jobs they can find. Opportunities for a better life that we pass on to our children, that's a project the American people want us to work on together. We did that in December. He was talking about when we came together to prevent the largest tax increase in American history from impacting Americans and the jobs they were seeking. Here is what he said: We did that in December. Thanks to the tax cuts that we passed, Americans' paychecks are bigger today. Businesses can write off the full cost of investments, and these steps taken by Democrats and Republicans will grow the economy and add more than 1 million private sector jobs. That's why Ernst & Young says doing what the Democrats propose to do is going to kill 700,000 jobs.…”