Political Quotes

“I thank you, Congressman Akin, and I thank you for leading this special order. I want to build on what you and Mr. Jordan have said. I had a town hall meeting in my district on Monday. The people in my district are commonsense people. And they are saying, we just want commonsense solutions. They want the truth. They want the simple truth about what this bill is going to do and what needs to be done. I find it just unbelievable that these folks who are in charge here, the Democrats who are in charge, have such a low opinion of the American people. I want to talk about that for just a minute because I think that is part of the problem that we have. There is an article today in the Washington Times, and it says, House Democrats Tuesday defended the idea of tying together the Senate health care overhaul bill and a companion bill of repairs that could spare Members from having to vote outright for the Senate's tax on high-cost insurance plans and other contentious provisions. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the public isn't going to be worried about how Congress passed a bill, but rather what's in the bill, and won't differentiate between the procedural paths. This is his quote: ``Do you think any American is going to make a distinction,'' he asked? ``I don't think any American, real American out there, is going to make a distinction between the two.'' Well, the people I was dealing with on Monday are real Americans. I can tell him that.…”