Political Quotes

“for 2 weeks the government has been shut down. It is hard to imagine. It seems a lot longer if you have been sitting here in the midst of this maelstrom--2 weeks since the junior Senator from Texas took the floor and for 21 hours held the floor, giving a speech calling for the end of ObamaCare as we know it. In that period of time we have learned a lot about ourselves. We learned a lot about this country. I think about the 800,000 Federal employees furloughed, many of whom struggle to get by and now have no paycheck coming in. It is a hardship that is totally unnecessary, a hardship that was imposed on them because there was a strategy, a political strategy, political gamesmanship that said: We can sacrifice the well-being of those Federal employees and their families to make our political point. It turns out they went further. They went further in suggesting they were going to cut off the benefits these government agencies offered. At this point in time, we have come to learn what that means. People who were turned away from the National Institutes of Health, children-- some 30 children with cancer were turned away because that agency is closed. Families who were notified they had lost a loved one in battle were denied the basic benefits we provide to all families facing that terrible grief. There was a lack of food safety inspections when salmonella outbreaks were being reported around the country. The list goes on and on. John F.…”