Political Quotes

“at the end of this week the Republicans will have a celebration of passage of items in their Contract on America in 100 days. The most important question we need to ask about the Republican contract is: Who wins, and who loses? The breakneck pace the Republican leadership has employed to pass the items in the contract has obscured the answer to this question. I am confident that as time goes on, and the American people are given the time they deserve to consider these measures, they will understand that they will be the losers because their interests are not represented as they were led to believe. So let us step back for a moment and take a look at these first 100 days. What are the Republicans really selling with the contract, and who is buying? The Republican leadership moved quickly to tend to the needs of their special patrons: the special corporate interests who have for decades sought relief from their responsibilities for the health, safety, and well being of Americans. Corporate America's special interests' day has finally come. In their zeal to protect their patrons the Republican leadership and members immediately moved to issue a blanket moratorium on all new regulations of the Federal Government. This blind, unthinking payoff to the special interests did not discriminate between good regulations and bad ones. It did not consider who might get hurt. That of course, was not the point.…”