Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady from Tennessee for yielding. I also want to thank her for organizing this Special Order this evening on such an important issue. None of us knows for sure what the United States Supreme Court is going to do in the next few days, the next week, maybe 10 days. None of us even knows for sure when it's going to happen, but I think we all anticipate that it will be soon. I think none of us would disagree with the fact that whatever they do, it's going to have significant and real implications to an awful lot of people all across this country. I think it's important to remember how we got into this position-- this mess, quite frankly--that we're in right now relative to health care and what happened. The Democrats were in complete control. President Obama had been elected, and they controlled the House and the Senate. And rather than act in a bipartisan manner on something as important as this, which is what they should have done--they should have gotten input from both sides and done what was in the best interest of the people when you are dealing with something as important as health care--they basically rammed through a bill. Unfortunately, few had even read the bill, as we heard over and over again. And in fact, Speaker Pelosi, who was Speaker at the time, even made a statement that it was important that they pass the bill so they could find out what was in it. What an incredible statement to make.…”