Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have my favorite Abraham Lincoln quotation. One day, he was in the White House with his family and his staff. His staff said: You have to stay in the White House and win the war and free the slaves and save the Union, and Lincoln said: No. I have to go out and get my public opinion bath. I don't think that too many people in this body are getting their public opinion baths. They are not seeing the pain out there. They don't seem to absorb that, one day in August, in my State, as an example, 600,000 people--just like that--lost their $600-a-week unemployment insurance. In Wisconsin and Rhode Island, for hundreds of thousands of people--just like that--their $600-a-week unemployment insurance expired. They couldn't find jobs. There is massive unemployment in our States. There are people who are hurting. What are they to do? If you are just getting by on that $600 a week and if the money doesn't come and if you can't find a job, what are you to do? How are you to feed your family? There is so much anger out there and frustration and futility. People are hurting. Yet President Trump and Leader McConnell refuse to do their jobs. We have asked them for weeks and months to come back here and help us open the schools safely, to help local communities and local governments, to help unemployed workers, to help people who are about to lose their apartments--who are about to be evicted.…”