Political Quotes

“Well, I thank the gentleman from Missouri for heading up this Special Order hour and for talking so much common sense into the Record himself. And as we watched, there are two different paths one can follow. The road that's being traveled by the Obama administration and the Pelosi House and the Reid Senate is a road down the path of Keynesian economics on steroids. And the path that we should have followed, and the path that we've got to get back to, is more of the Adam Smith, free market component of our free enterprise economy. And if we look at all of the components of this free market that have been nationalized, taken over, or are under a great threat of this Congress taking them over, we can add up, as I've many times said, the banks, the insurance companies, Fannie and Freddie and the car companies, the student loan program completely, the nationalization of our bodies under Obamacare, our skin and everything inside it. Now we have the financial services bill sitting over there in the Senate about ready to get shoved out of there and back here for a conference report, and it could end up on the President's desk. If we add all of that up, and if we add to that cap-and-tax, which is another huge endeavor on the part of the President, the Speaker and the majority leader in the Senate----”