Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, and I appreciate you yielding some time to me on this important occasion. As the doctor from Texas has said, Mr. Speaker, we are going to ``celebrate''--and I put that in quotes--the third anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. I will tell you a lot of things haven't changed in the past 3 years unfortunately, even though we were promised that things would. For instance, as many Americans know, we were promised that premiums were going to go down magically. What did we find? Premiums went up. They continued to rise. The Affordable Care Act was the wrong solution if the problem was rising health care premiums. Now, other things have happened in the past 3 years that really haven't changed much. One is that the American people still don't like the Affordable Care Act. We know that in poll after poll after poll, a clear majority of Americans wish this bill just simply didn't exist, yet it still does. More seriously than even that, over the past 3 years we've had a jobless recovery, and a large part of the blame has to be on some of the policies that were put in place 3 years ago, the cornerstone of which was the Affordable Care Act. We know, for instance, that there's a new term in the United States now. We thought the 49ers were a team that played in the Super Bowl. No.…”