Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentleman because I think that we've received some rather sobering news about the state of America and the state of American workers--the state of Americans. It is that here we are at a time when we've reached the highest poverty rates in 52 years in this country, where median incomes are down lower than they've been in a generation--7 percent less, in fact, than what median incomes were even in 1999--where nearly a third of African American families in this country live in poverty, where millions upon millions of children in this country go to bed hungry because they live in poverty, because their families--their parents-- don't have a chance for a job and an opportunity. I think that that should be sobering news for us, not as Democrats and Republicans; it should be sobering news for us as Americans. That's why, when I heard President Obama in this House speaking to the American people about the need to create jobs right now, I know what I heard was a message that said: I suppose with the politics we could politic this out for 14 months, that we could fight amongst ourselves as Democrats and Republicans for 14 months, that we could in the political arena just raise millions and millions of dollars to run campaign ads and make annoying phone calls to people across this country for 14 months--or we could take a different path.…”