Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady for yielding time and for leading this discussion of a way forward. I appreciate the fact that we are now in a shutdown of government that I fear has been intentionally perpetrated in order to force something further on the American people. I remember between my first term in office, after being defeated in 2008 to come back here and spending time for the next 2 years back in my district, and in watching my colleagues--my former colleagues and now my present colleagues--battle and debate on the floor of this great Chamber, in this great House, this great Capitol, in the people's House, the issue of what then was called the Affordable Care Act. I remember reading about it and listening and speaking with colleagues and asking what their impression was, and then ultimately hearing the Speaker of the House say: Let's pass this, let's pass it and then we can find out what's in it; and reading the comments of fellow legislators who had not even read this full bill and understanding that there was much in it, much that ultimately would be found out later on to be an extreme problem, not just to carry out, not just to regulate, not just to implement, as we've seen in the last couple of days--and we can certainly assume that there will be break-in problems to get something this massive, this intrusive, this complicated up and working--but more so the problem of looking at a takeover of one-sixth of our Nation's economy, the problem of challenging people with som…”