Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is with great disappointment and bafflement that I stand here yet again in the year 2012 to draw a line in the sand against another outrageous attempt to roll back women's access to basic health care services. After insisting that we debate the long-settled concept of provided access to birth control, when 99 percent of American women use this medication at some point in their life, many of whom use it not even for contraception, Republicans have chosen to take another extreme step to roll back all women's health care rights. So instead of talking about how to grow our economy, we are wasting time on the latest overreach and intrusion into women's lives. When will my colleagues understand this very nondebatable fact, that the decisions of whether a woman takes one medicine or another, or what type of health care she should have access to, should not be the decision of her boss--a commonsense, simple principle, that bosses and employers should not make these very personal decisions. What could be more intrusive than that? Let me be clear. This debate, as the Presiding Officer said in his remarks, has nothing to do with religious freedom. You do not have to take it from me. Take it from the Supreme Court. Take it from Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most conservative Justices of our Supreme Court. In the majority decision in 1990, Employment Division v.…”