Political Quotes

“Mr. President, when I was a little boy growing up, we used to have chickens, and every morning the roosters we had would make the most noise, unbelievable noise they would make. Maybe those roosters thought that when they crowed, the Sun would come up, but it had nothing to do with that. I have been places where roosters do not crow and the Sun still comes up. My friend from Tennessee is using the rooster analogy and has about as much factual foundation as the analogy I just gave about the Sun coming up when the rooster crows. I was at a breakfast this morning. One of my friends, a former chief of staff to one of the Senators here, said to me: Passing the health care bill was a miracle in the lives of him and his family. Those are his words, not mine. They have a child who developed diabetes. They could not find insurance for that child. Because of the health care bill, that child is fully insured now. That is what the health care bill is about. For my friend to complain about the health insurance costs going up, a little bit of facts would make a lot of difference in that argument. The health care bill does not go into effect until 2014. Parts of it do, but the main impetus of the health care bill to cover the 50 million people who have no health insurance does not kick in until 2014. The insurance costs have gone up because insurance companies raised the premiums, as they always do.…”