Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, today I rise to ask the Senate to work with the House because of this shutdown. You know, four times now we have met here in the House to send a plan over to Harry Reid to ask him to consider to negotiate, to find some solution to avoid the shutdown. But indeed, he made a decision that we would not have an honest, open debate; we would not negotiate. Instead, one person in the Senate decides the fate of our government, of the American people, and it all comes down to Harry Reid. When we look at this, we were here until 1:30 this morning passing the fourth proposal--and I agree with some of my colleagues, they're saying you're negotiating against yourself. But we wanted to go that extra mile to make sure that we put forth that final proposal that says: Can we not find some common ground? Now Mr. Speaker, some of my colleagues have made comparisons to the Taliban. You know, I don't find that there are any American citizens that deserve that kind of rhetoric and name-calling. It's time that we have an honest and open debate about the merits of this offer, the merits of this debate. I come from North Carolina. And in North Carolina, we are one of two States that are the worst off of the side effects of ObamaCare. I just got off of a phone call from a government worker who I thought was going to give me a hard time because of the shutdown, and yet she and her husband said that they serve our Federal Government loyally right now. He has served in the military.…”