Political Quotes

“Well, reclaiming my time, I would label the gentleman from Georgia as not necessarily right or left or center, but perhaps an optimist on the grounds that the Speaker has been around here for a long time, and she surely would have seen this over and over and over again over the last 20 or more years that I believe she has been here. So I actually don't think that it is about trying to arrive at a means to get Democrat and Republican votes. I think it's about trying to move a hard-core left-wing agenda. The President has said he is for single payer. The Speaker is for single payer. Harry Reid is for single payer. That's all socialized medicine. That's government-run health care. Now it's a matter of--it isn't necessarily, in my view, what's right or wrong with the way they're looking at this. I had said before the election--a year ago last November--if we elect President Obama, the most liberal President in American history, the most liberal Senator in the United States Senate, if we elect him, with a strong ideology--and by the way, he told us in Baltimore, the President said, I am not an ideologue, I am not, but I am not aware of anyone that actually believes that. A strong left-wing President standing with the Speaker of the House from San Francisco, Harry Reid from Las Vegas, those three are the ruling troika in America.”