Political Quotes

“I hope that my colleagues, particularly my Republican colleagues, who have endorsed this strategy, the Gingrich strategy of Government shutdown, will go home and listen to what the people on the street have to say about what we are doing. This morning I stood at the Jefferson Park CTA stop in the city of Chicago for about an hour and a half, and as a thousand people came by, I took my poll, and I can tell you people across this country are damn disgusted with what is happening here in Washington. They cannot countenance how we can allow 280,000 Federal workers to be furloughed and three-quarters of a million workers to have their pay in jeopardy. You see, they listened to the Gingrich rhetoric about personal responsibility, personal responsibility, and yet they see the same leaders who are sending Federal workers home unpaid and underpaid, taking their full congressional paychecks every single day.”