Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are, obviously, struggling to find something that puts us in balance, a balance that will create more jobs, more opportunity, expand family incomes for middle-class people, and we do not seem to be getting there. We are engaged in the wrong kind of a dialog, in my judgment. Yesterday, I voted to oppose the tax cut extenders bill that came along after long and hard thought about the consequences of my decision. For me, voting decisions cannot be made without reflecting on my life's experiences to guide me, things that I saw as a child of a poverty-stricken family, not because my father was not willing to work, but at times during those years work was just unavailable, and it was hard going for a lot of years. What I remember is how hard my parents struggled to try and do what could be done for my sister and myself. That was our entire family. My father worked in mills that were common in the city of Paterson, NJ--textile mills--and there was something in the environment there that was very harmful. My father was 43 when he died. My mother was a 37-year-old widow, and I had already joined the Army. I had enlisted in the Army. I saw what happened. My father was sick for 13 months from cancer. By the way, his brother who worked in the mills died from cancer. Their father worked in the factory, and he died at age 56 from cancer.…”