Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it was my understanding that another member of the Democratic Party was going to speak at this time, but not seeing him, I think I will just go ahead and deliver my presentation. As a candidate for the Senate during this past year, I met with many Hoosier families and small business owners, as well as health care providers, patients, doctors, and all those involved with concerns about where this health care process was going to go. Everywhere I went, from Lake County to Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, Muncie, and down to Evansville--all across the State I heard a resounding plea to overturn the costly and intrusive health care law that was passed by this last Congress and signed into law by the President. The issue for these people was not whether we needed to address issues of health care, whether it was quality, cost-effectiveness, or access; the issues for them were two things: One, they resented the process where a massive bill, which many did not fully understand or grasp the implications of, was forced through these Chambers and passed hours before Christmas. The rules were bent to try to move the bill through the process, and it became a policy which was not supported on a bipartisan basis but yet a policy that affected virtually every American. If experience tells us anything, it is that massive changes in policy need bipartisan support to be acceptable if they are going to be effective.…”