Political Quotes

“What is it now? Crush jobs. The fact of the matter is that the bill actually decreases the deficit by $230 billion, so you'd be increasing the deficit if you repealed the bill. And with regard to jobs, I mean, look, if you think about what's in the bill, because everybody gets coverage, you're going to have to have a lot more health professionals, so that creates jobs, because premiums will stabilize, employers won't have the double-digit inflation that comes and makes it harder for them to hire people. So just the fact that your premiums stabilize makes it easier for employers to hire people. {time} 2030 And then we have all kinds of funding for research at labs and hospitals and institutions around the country; even the R&D creates jobs. It creates jobs is the bottom line. But I would really like to go back to where I started from, and, that is, most people just say to me, ``Why are the Republicans doing this? Let this bill kick in. Let us get to the point where everyone's covered. Let's see how it works.'' We know the Senate's not going to pass the repeal. The President's not going to sign the repeal. So rather than spend our time trying to figure out ways of creating jobs, we'll just debate this for another week for no purpose, just as a waste of time.”