Political Quotes

“First of all, I haven't seen the ad the gentleman is referring to. But if he wants to start going through ads and he wants me to send him some ads where people on his side lie about positions that Members on our side have taken, I will be happy to give him a litany of false ads, misleading ads, then we can go back and forth on that. But if he is trying to hide from the term ``socialism'' when he promotes socialist policies, we can have a debate about what socialism is. It is an ideology, it is not a word that is thrown around, and it involves government control of your life. So when you move bills like the Green New Deal or when you see a Presidential candidate on your side running around saying he is going to go to people's houses and take their guns--that is a candidate for President of the United States on your side--those are socialist policies. If the gentleman doesn't want the term applied, then don't promote that ideology, don't embrace that ideology, reject the ideology. But he won't. You want to try to play it both ways. You want to try to act like you are going to impeach the President, but say you are not going to impeach the President. You want to promote the Green New Deal, but you don't want to bring it to the floor, so your Members don't have to be exposed to the vote. But, ultimately, as long as the gentleman is going to embrace and allow socialist ideas to come forward, people are going to call it for what it is.…”