Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, as my colleagues have said today, and I have mentioned, also, we are here this week, we are here on a Friday afternoon, we are not normally here, because our colleagues across the aisle, along with the President, have decided that it is time for the government to take over one-sixth of our economy and to institute a government-run health care plan in this country. We have talked about this before, but this is the wrong way to go. The American people do not want this plan. And why are we being kept in town on a Friday afternoon and being told we will probably vote on Sunday? Because despite the fact that the Democrats control 253 seats and need only 216 votes, they cannot get their colleagues to agree with them to vote on this terrible bill. {time} 1600 They, again, try to blame Republicans for the situation that we're in, but they cannot do that. The American people are paying attention, they know about the Slaughter rule, they know the tricks and chicanery that are being used to get people to vote for this bill that Americans do not want. But we've raised the awareness of process as well as substance here. And I want today to talk about even a person in this great State of Massachusetts who has predicted that passing this bill will be a disaster.…”