Political Quotes

“Nothing could be further from the truth. I am not making this up; you are not making up this issue. This is the first question asked by my constituents at every health care town hall meeting. And it really made me sad, because the fact is that this is like a ton of bricks that is on our shoulders, that is weighing us down as we try and address every other substantive issue that is out there. How are we going to get the public's confidence that the very difficult compromises that are going to need to be made on health care, and on our budget deficit, on welfare reform, or on any of the other major issues that we want to address in this Congress, how are we going to get their confidence that we are making the decisions in the right manner with the public interest in mind, with only thinking about what is right if we cannot get over that threshold of credibility that they know that we are willing to live by what we do to them? It is maddening, and it is saddening that that is what we confront.”