Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I hope the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison) will stick around. I want to salute him and congratulate him on his new position, not only as a leading Member of the United States House of Representatives, but now as vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. All of your colleagues are beaming with pride about your accomplishments and about your national political leadership, and we are delighted that the rest of the country is going to get to share in your leadership now in your new aggressive role out organizing opposition to what is taking place in Washington today. I want to take a little break from railing about this unaffordable care act that is going to drive everybody's rates up and throw millions of people off their health insurance. I want to say a couple of good things that President Trump said as a candidate because he attacked ObamaCare, but he said he wanted a system that covered everybody. He's been quoted many times speaking in favor of a single-payer plan that would cover every citizen. Now, that talk has completely dried up. It has vanished and disappeared. I urge President Trump to go back to his original instinct, which is that, if you are going to repeal and replace ObamaCare--the Affordable Care Act, as he keeps saying--let's replace it with the kind of system they have in Canada, they have in Europe, and just cover everybody. That would be the direction to go in.…”