Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

"this is an awful disease, and we should not force anybody to go stand in line and--making them susceptible to this deadly virus."

"I am concerned about minority consumers, who are frankly, hemorrhaging, right now and are at heightened risk of attack by financial predators."

"I appreciate very much this subject today with Director Kraninger, because I don't know if there are very many other issues that are in the same area of importance."

"One of my big concerns is we politicize everything... I think we are probably going to lose some lives over that, and may have already done so."