Political Quotes

“I am not the Wizard of Oz, I am Dorothy, and I am pulling the cloak off the wizard to let you know that the rule here, the disapproval resolution, does not only rescind the rule, it prohibits issuance of a similar rule. A bad rule. I am worried about my mother, 80 years old, who folded boxes for a company. Her hand looks like this. I have said this on the floor before. It is like this because she cannot move it as a result of the repetitive motion of folding a box. Let us make the argument that instead of just saving money for companies, we might save the health care costs for all these workers who are stuck like this, or stuck like this, from doing repetitive motion. Wake up, Republican Party. Understand that we are not saying Republican-Democrats. We are for workers. Democrat-Republican, black-white, male-female, old-young. Lifting a turkey? Lifting a turkey all day every day may present a problem. Women can lift babies, all women have lifted babies forever; but maybe that is the problem they have currently as a result of doing the repetitive motion. We are Dorothy, not the Wizard.”