Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Georgia and my colleague from Colorado for their comments--and the future comments of some of my colleagues who are in the class of 2014. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk a little bit about facts and fiction and some of the things we will observe here. In fact, I think probably the Kennedy Center is the only place you can go to see a bigger theatrical performance than what you are going to see on this floor over the next couple of weeks, because they are simply not consistent with what we are trying to do here, and I want to talk a little bit about it. Let's start with some of the fiction. I was just presiding before I came off the dais about 30 minutes ago, and I heard a 30-minute speech from someone who said that they haven't seen the bill, said that it had been passed in the dark of night, that it is not being discussed in committee. But then they went on to have a 30-minute description of why the bill is bad How could you not have seen something and have such a definitive position on the provisions of the bill? To me, it is just curious. Here is something that is even more curious. There are so many Members--many of them friends--on the other side of the aisle who are simply making a false claim that we are somehow going to raise taxes on working families, the middle class. Why would that make sense?…”