Political Quotes

“I go into a restaurant in the Loop in Chicago. My wife and I have breakfast there regularly. It is well known. It is named Lou Mitchell's. Lou Mitchell's restaurant claims they are the beginning of Route 66 in America. Tourists come from all over the world to travel Route 66, and they start at Lou Mitchell's. Well, that is where my wife and I start with breakfast on Sunday morning. And we have a favorite waitress whom we have been working with for years, and a lady who serves as maitre d' who is 94 years old. She comes to work every day. It is a great place. It is a real slice of America, a real slice of Chicago. It is usually a pretty happy place, too--rooting for the Bears and talking about upcoming holidays. It wasn't that way with my friend the waitress--I will call her Sara--last Sunday. She came over to me and said: Senator, do you know what is going to happen to my health insurance on January 1? And I said: No. And she said: I am going to have to pay 3 or $400 more a month for me and my husband under the Affordable Care Act. What happened? How can I possibly pay that amount of money as a working waitress? She is 63 years old. She has been working as a waitress for years, and she has had a ton of medical problems.”