Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank both him and the gentlemen from Texas and Ohio for this Special Order hour on behalf of the Republican Study Committee. I notice the chart in the well of the Chamber is talking about the real cost of the health care legislation and what it means over time: $2.1 trillion. I think when you look at that number and couple it with some of the things that we have seen happen in the last year--in fact, I gave a speech last week back home in the Fourth Congressional District of Ohio where I talked about this, and I started the speech with the question, Who would have imagined? Who would have thought? Who would have thought that we would run a $1.4 trillion deficit last year, the largest in American history? Who would have thought that we would have a $12 trillion national debt, moving to $13 trillion in the very near future, slated to go on the Obama budget spending schedule to $20 trillion over the next 10 years? Who would have thought within 2 years the interest payments on that debt would be over a billion dollars a day? We are talking some serious, serious financial concern. And what do we have being pushed by the leadership in this Congress? A health care bill that is going to add $2.1 trillion to those already unbelievable numbers. Every single American, every man, woman, and child today, to pay off the debt we currently have, it is $39,000 that they have to pay. It is unbelievable.…”