Political Quotes

“I get the sense from reading the papers, from listening to my constituents, and from participating in the legislative process in Congress, that people are quickly approaching a boiling point over the direction and future of the United States. While unemployment in my State of Michigan reached historic lows according to recent statistics, the information is almost irrelevant to the emotional and psychological disposition of the State. Somehow, in some way, people understand that the problems facing America today are more than skin deep. They are not going away. They are part of a national crisis that involves something deep and more significant than the latest economic statistics? People know there is something wrong with our country, and they want us to confront the issues. So that is what I intend to do here today. I am here to talk about the United States. Personally, I have no president and no political party to defend. In many ways, we are all to blame. You, me, and every voting age man and woman in this country. Our problems were not completely caused by government, nor will they be completely solved by government. They are deeper than that. And I, for one, am not going to trivialize our Nation's problems by suggesting that some magical welfare reform bill, or crime bill, or health care reform bill, is going to solve our problems.”