Hakeem Jeffries actually said...

"This mindless austerity takes a meat-cleaver approach to cutting programs, regardless of the wisdom of doing so or the long-term costs that these cuts would create."

"The American airline industry is certainly extremely critical to our economy, to our commerce, to ability to keep families together, our social network, educational infrastructure."

"the economy, since 2009 under this administration, is moving in the right direction based on any reasonable objective economic measure, wouldn't that be correct?"

"Would it also be fair to say that in 2008 this country confronted the worse economic crisis and collapse that we have experienced in the history of the republic with the exception of the Great Depress..."