Political Quotes

“Well, we have had a lot of words from the leader--none of them talk about reality. One picture equals all his words: Schumer, Pelosi, Mnuchin, Meadows in a room negotiating, where the Republican leader can't even show up because his caucus is so divided. In his own words, 20 of his Members don't want to vote for anything. Now, faced with a crisis they created--for 10 weeks we have asked the leader to negotiate, and now, finally, they have woken up to the fact that we are at a cliff. But it is too late--too late because even if we were to pass this measure, all the States--almost every State says people would not get their unemployment for weeks and months, all because of the disunity, dysfunction of this Republican caucus and of the leader, afraid to negotiate because he doesn't have his people behind him. The bottom line is very simple: This new proposal moves things even backward. Instead of a 30-percent cut from what people are getting, it is a 33-percent cut. And we all know that the proposal that is in existence now has kept millions out of poverty. Now we hear talk from the other side that this creates the deficit-- this increases the deficit. We can't spend money. Well, I would remind them of the $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich--tax cut for the rich. No one even thought about the deficit then. But when it comes to average folks, working people, we don't hear a thing. Unemployment is a crisis. There are many crises.…”