Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am, indeed, honored to join you and the rest of our colleagues here in sharing some thoughts on what the American people now should expect in the coming months and years from the administration's so-called historic achievement in health care reform. It's historic all right. This massive bill gives the government control over one-sixth of our economy and the authority to manipulate markets and to make individual health care decisions. So how did President Obama convince the American people to buy into this scheme? He looked the American people right in the TV camera lens, and he promised two things. He pledged that this law would cut costs for American families, and he promised that it would make health care more affordable. Now, I could stand up here and talk about all of the other economic dangers posed by the so-called Affordable Care Act, like the ever- mounting costs of implementation, the instability it causes in programs that seniors rely on, the fact that this bill contributes substantially to the insurmountable debt we are leaving to our children and our grandchildren, but that's not foremost in the minds of those individuals whom I represent along the Ohio River in eastern and southeastern Ohio.…”