Political Quotes

“How in the world did we ever get here? Think about this. This is a fight being picked over an issue that everyone knew was going to be resolved. It's a fight being picked over an issue that there is no fight over. Five years ago, the Democrats put this clip in the law that would require student loan interest rates to more than double on July 1. I don't know why they did it, but they did it. Nobody wants to see student loan interest rates go up, especially when you have recent college graduates of which 50 percent are either unemployed or underemployed as a result of the President's economic policies. We've had Democrats and Republicans for months who have been talking about trying to fix this problem. While we don't yet have the long-term solution to this problem--the chairman is continuing to work on it--we believe that we shouldn't put students at risk and that we ought to make sure that their interest rates don't go up. So we developed this short-term policy to solve this problem for the next year while the committee has time to look at a long-term solution to this problem. But why do people insist that we have to have a political fight on something where there is no fight? There is absolutely no fight. People want to politicize this because it's an election year. But my God, do we have to fight about everything? Now we're going to have to fight over women's health. Give me a break.…”