Political Quotes

“If I could temporarily reclaim my time, I would just appreciate an opportunity to comment on what you said, Mr. Gohmert. This phrase comes to mind: Birds of a feather flock together. That's why it's unusual to see some of those birds that are not of a feather there in the flock of the Tea Party faithful. Why would that be? I think we've seen it here, occasionally, on the floor of the House of Representatives when we generally sit in a segregated fashion-- Democrats on one side and Republicans on the other side. Yes, we walk through and we talk to each other and we do business; but generally speaking, it's Democrats there and Republicans here. Yet on occasion-- and especially on the occasions of the State of the Union addresses and of addresses of the joint sessions of Congress by President Obama--we have Democrats who will come over to this side of the aisle and who will sit in a scattered fashion throughout over here so that, when the standing ovations begin or when they don't happen, they're blended and integrated in a different way. That's by order of the Speaker of the House. It isn't infiltration-- it's public--but it is clearly by order of the Speaker of the House. They didn't just spontaneously decide to come over and sit here and try to start standing ovations and, more or less, change the image of the State of the Union address. Also, we know that the left has infiltrated or has at least announced that they were seeking to infiltrate the Tea Party groups.”