Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, my discharge petition at the desk is really an approach that the American people spoke loudly in. Every single one of us just came through an election, and the message was abundantly clear to me: Why do you continue to bicker? Why do you continue to stand on the floor and make these ridiculous Kabuki-dance statements with one another when it shouldn't be that difficult? We came out of a Constitutional Convention, and when they asked James Madison what the secret to this new government was: compromise, compromise, compromise. Mr. Speaker, to sit here and do what we're doing--not bringing this forward and releasing the tension on the middle class, making sure the economy knows there's stability amongst taxes--is holding our economy back. And to be very honest, it's insulting to the American people. This is a Nation that won two world wars. This is a Nation that split the atom. This is a Nation that put a man on the Moon. This is a Nation sending pictures back from Mars from Curiosity. Sign the discharge petition, bring it to the floor, get 435 votes, put it online for 24 hours, send it to the President, and by 3 o'clock tomorrow, the big chunk of the fiscal cliff is done. Don't insult the people with things that aren't true. Don't tell them that it's not about compromise, and don't sit here and pretend like we're working when we're not. They know better. They're smarter. They deserve better.…”