Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady. When you consider how rhetoric doesn't square up with reality in this institution, the gentleman from Iowa started by saying this is the greatest threat to personal liberty in history. Well, we have some young people here today, and I guess he thinks that Plessy vs. Ferguson and Dred Scott and Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, that those didn't represent a threat to personal liberty. Now, President Bush said that the best way to get health care, for those who were outside the mainstream, was very simple. You could go to an emergency room. That is not health care. That treats the issue in front of the individual. It denies preventive care. It doesn't offer assistance to women who are in need of additional health care. This proposal that we passed was modest, and it was market driven. It kept the private sector alive and it put in place basic protections for the American consumer. I wish that we could have a separate vote on the individual proposals that we included in that bill, and I guarantee you we wouldn't be talking about death panels; we would be talking about the idea of extending health care benefits to all members of the American family, including the 51 million who find themselves outside of the mainstream. Just think of it today. This is more of a threat to liberty than Plessy vs. Ferguson and Dred Scott and Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus. Mr.…”