Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Congresswoman Jayapal for leading us in this Special Order to discuss President Trump's tax proposal, which we received this morning--or last night. The public discussion on taxes has been going on for several weeks now in anticipation of the release of the President's proposal. Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets, from the East to the West, the North to the South, all over America. Hundreds of thousands of people marched with a very simple demand to President Trump, which is that he follow the precedent and the policy that was pursued by the last nine Presidents, going back to Richard Nixon, for a half century of releasing his tax returns, something that President Trump promised to do as a President, saying he would do it after his audit was completed, and then he got into office and then just changed his mind and said this would be, I guess, another one of the broken promises that he would deliver to the American people. So why is this a big deal? Why is it important that we get to see the President's taxes? Well, America was conceived in popular democratic revolution against royalty, against monarchy, against aristocracy.…”