Political Quotes

“The American people are not fools. They understand that the Democrats in Congress all Congress long have been pushing for an increase in the minimum wage. We could not even get a procedural vote to bring the minimum wage to the floor for months upon months upon months. The Republican leadership did not want this bill. They finally are here kicking and screaming every inch of the way because they know that 80 percent of the American people support the minimum wage increase and they were on the wrong side of the issue. So they are cutting their losses, and they are reluctantly coming to the table. But the American people, again, are not fools. They know that the Democratic Party has been pushing it in this Congress. This is the Congress that the Republicans have the majority, and this has been to-do-nothing Republican Congress because it took us so long to finally get the minimum wage to the floor, and we are finally about to pass the minimum wage, but again with 90 Republicans or 92 Republicans, still a majority of Republicans in this Chamber, voted against raising the minimum wage, and a majority of Democrats overwhelmingly supported and voted for the minimum wage.”