Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. I'll just try to close one point here in this narrow window that we have, and I know that it's narrow, and that is this: This bill does fund abortion. And ever since 1973, the argument has been made by people on this side of the aisle, women and men both, consistently and relentlessly, that the Federal Government has no business telling a woman what she can or can't do with her body. But today, the same people are saying the Federal Government has every right to tell everybody in America what they can or can't do with their body, and they don't see the hypocrisy in it. They don't see the conflict or the lack of rationale. You can't be right both times. You can't say one thing for two generations and then just flip and decide that, well, it's convenient now to expand the dependency class, so now we're going to use the logic that the Federal Government has the right. The Federal Government does not have the right to take over our health care. There is no constitutional foundation. There is no constitutional authority. It's a violation of the equal protection clause. It's a violation of the commerce clause in the Constitution. There is no authority. The American people have rejected it. And now what we have is a situation where we have the arrogance of power of people that have not heard yet from the American people. We need this. The center of America has decided they want to protect their freedom, their liberty, and their own health insurance policies.…”