Political Quotes

“I would like to challenge every Member of this House today to take another pledge, a pledge that we will not go home in February for a month, a pledge we will not take a paid vacation as Members of Congress, while this Nation is on the brink of defaulting on its good faith and credit for the first time in two centuries. Mr. Speaker, I think every Member of Congress tomorrow who would vote to recess, when we are on this brink, are playing Russian roulette with the American economy and average working people's lives whose mortgage rates will go up and veterans who will not receive their paychecks and the widows of veterans who will not receive their pensions. Anybody who votes to go on recess tomorrow should volunteer not only to give up his or her paycheck for the month of February. They should volunteer to explain to 44 million senior citizens why on March 1 they may not get their Social Security checks and Medicare recipients will not get their checks. We should stay here and work.”