Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I heard someone on the other side said something that disturbed me, so it has actually taken me off my remarks because it can't go unaddressed. For the gentleman to say that Democrats, the majority party here in the House, are the greatest threat to American democracy that the world has ever known, that means we are more threatening than Putin and the Russians, more threatening than this terrible pandemic around us. It is the sort of thing that I would admonish my side never to say about the other side, and it is the sort of thing that I think takes us away from why we are here. We are here to have debate and discussion and to reasonably disagree on things. At the end of the day, we are calling for a vote as we normally do. Things are voted up; things are voted down. That has been the process that I have come to know over all these years. We are here because Americans who are Democrats and Republicans and independents are not getting their mail on time. We are here because there has been a 10 percent slowdown in the last 66 days. We are here because sorting machines have been dismantled at an accelerated rate, not the normal rate, an accelerated rate all across America. We are here because mailboxes, without density studies, are being snatched. They have been removed over the years, but it has accelerated. It has accelerated to such an extent that now people are wondering: Where is their medication? Where is their check?…”