Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today there are about 1 million people in America who are terribly disappointed at what took place yesterday--1 million people. That is 1 million in one category. There are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of others who are disappointed because of different things done to them yesterday as a result of the Republicans not supporting legislation. It was fully paid for. The statements made by Republicans after this bill was rejected by them are simply without any fact. There were efforts made to work with Republicans. We cut the size of the bill. We paid even for things we had never paid for before. We decided to do that in an effort to get help for millions of Americans. One of the things we paid for was something called FMAP, which is money we would direct to the States that they could use for police, fire, teachers, nurses--to stop layoffs from taking place there. That was rejected. There are numerous editorials around the country rejecting what the Republicans did yesterday, and there are headlines in virtually every newspaper of America: LA Times: ``Senate GOP Blocks Jobless Aid Extension.'' Business Week: ``Republicans Thwart Bill With Unemployment Aid, Buyout Tax Boost.'' Boston Globe: ``Filibuster Halts Bill Boosting Jobless Benefits, Aid to States.'' McClatchy Newspapers: ``GOP Blocks Jobless-Benefit Extension Breaks.'' USA TODAY: ``Senate GOP Again Blocks Bill Extending Jobless Benefits, Tax Breaks.'' Those tax breaks were for middle-class Americans.…”