Political Quotes

“Rugged individualism. Oh, am I glad the gentleman brought that up. Rugged individualism produces a heartless bill like this. Now, if you look back to why we're in the dumpster economically, go back to the 1990s. Read Alan Greenspan, a great advocate of rugged individualism, and Ayn Rand; right? Just drive them into the ground. Make all of his friends rich. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley--it's an interesting group of characters up there that took America to the cleaners. They took and outsourced our jobs. Now they took our home equity. And now, it's getting so bad we even have a bill that's going to take food away from about 350,000 women and children. Now, whose fault is that? Here's a little note from somebody in my district. She says--she signed up this plate at the food bank, the local food bank. She said: Without help from the food bank, I would be on the streets. I struggle every day to make ends meet so my kids have a place to lay their heads at night. I have a job, but with two kids, it's still very hard. I have a lot of trouble paying rent and bills. I just wish there were more help to parents like myself. That's from the rural part of my district. From the urban part of my district, a plate is signed at the food bank: My income is spent on bills, which leaves very little money for me to purchase food for myself and my two daughters. Now, you know, the majority of people in this House are Christian.…”