Political Quotes

“We are basically muzzling a lot of the representative process. As you said, there have been different analogies. You talked about your son with a candy bar. Another one was the idea of a kitchen that has a broken sink. When you hire a plumber to fix the broken sink, you don't remodel the entire kitchen. Of course, that's the model that the Democrats have been using. It's the concept of, Ha, the sink is broken. Therefore, we can remodel the whole kitchen. They have the idea of remodeling the kitchen, and they've been wanting to do that for a very long time. The broken sink is now the excuse to remodel the whole kitchen. I think the point of the matter is that the American people would be more comfortable and the legislative process would work better if we were to say, ``Let's define a specific problem in the health care system.'' Instead of having the government take it all over, let's try to solve that one individual problem. I guess it depends on how you explain it or say it. If I were to ask, Gentleman, would you like the government to buy you a house, you might be tempted to say, Well, that sounds pretty good. Yet, if I were to ask, Would you like to live in government housing, you might think, I'm not so sure I want that. That may be a little bit of an analogy to explain what we've got here.”