Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise unscripted and in passionate support of freedom. I have heard many statements with words like ``fact'' and details of the minutia of these plans. I will share with you a fact. Two hundred years ago, my ancestral forefather was born. He was a young, poor Irishman born into indentured servitude. He heard a whisper of a land born across the sea, a land where a man could own his own property, a land where a man could keep the toil of his labor. So he garnered his courage, he saved his money, and he booked passage on a cargo vessel converted to carry human beings. According to the letter unearthed by my sainted mother, his sleeping berth measured 2 by 2 by 5. What could have driven my ancestral forefather--and yours, Mr. Speaker--indeed, all of America? What drove our ancestral forefathers to come to this land? Freedom. Freedom drove us, and it is freedom for which I stand. The Affordable Care Act, known as ObamaCare, is 8,000 pages--8,000 pages--of regulation and taxation. There is not a man or a woman amongst us, from sea to shining sea, who believes this body can produce 8,000 pages of freedom. The American Health Care Act is 124 pages of reasonable legislation based upon the best input of free market principles. A vote against the American Health Care Act is a vote against freedom. It is a vote against 124 pages of reasonable legislation, and it is a vote for 8,000 pages of ObamaCare. Mr.…”