Political Quotes

“the junior Senator from Wyoming has come to the floor several times recently talking about the fact that examples he and other Republicans have given dealing with ObamaCare, examples they think are bad, I call lies. That is simply untrue. I have never come to the floor, to my recollection, and said a word about any of the examples Republicans have given regarding ObamaCare and how it is not very good. But I have come to the floor--I think my friend, the junior Senator from Wyoming, must be getting mixed up about what I have said about the Koch brothers and what they have done regarding health care. But it is easy to get mixed up because I think it is hard to separate the Koch brothers from the Republican caucus, anyway. Mr. President, I have asserted and I will continue to assert that the Koch brothers are trying to buy America, and they are doing it in a number of different ways. They don't believe in Social Security. They don't believe in minimum wage. They don't believe in benefits-- unemployment benefits. They don't believe in environmental laws. As you know and read in the paper, they have a chemical plant. They were fined about $400,000 over the last week or 10 days and ordered to pay about $50 million to bring it up to standard because it was deleterious to the health of people in the area. The Koch brothers are running false and misleading ads all around the country against Democratic Senators dealing with health care. Do they care about health care?…”