Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I am heartened to hear the historical references from my friend from Virginia and my friend from Maryland, but if we go back just a little bit further, to our Nation's founding, the Founders were very concerned about concentrations of power. That is why we have our system of federalism, three branches of government, separation of powers. All was meant to disperse government so that no one branch, no one person ever got too powerful. But the underlying belief that would save this system of self- government was that people would be accountable to the people, that if you sent somebody up here and you agreed with them, you would send them back or you would send them home. What we have seen, particularly in the last hundred years, is the growth of an administrative state that isn't accountable to anybody. That is the truth. I was in Northwest Missouri a couple of years ago, and a farmer told me: Eric, I just don't ever remember voting for the Deputy Under Secretary of the EPA. He had a point. A guidance letter--not even a rule and certainly not even a law--can destroy a farmer's livelihood in a farm they have had for generations. Or take for example the abuses we saw during COVID. The Supreme Court--I know something about this. I was the AG that brought the case. The vaccine mandate. They didn't have any authority to force a medical procedure on 100 million people, but they wanted to do it anyway. Student loan debt forgiveness.…”