Political Quotes

“Just listening, I want to speak directly to Members of the House because we've got a few minutes left tonight and some debate tomorrow. How does this play out over the course of the next few months? By listening to what you gentlemen have just got done saying about Medicare, the significant improvements of strengthening Medicare, we're going to have to run an election. And there is probably going to be an election on this bill. What has happened over the last few months is our friends on the other side have consistently tried to throw arguments again the wall, and they would just fall; they wouldn't stick because they weren't true. We started with death panels, and illegal immigrants, and abortion, and we went right down the line. None of them ended up working out. ``It's going to bankrupt the country.'' And then we get CBO--I mean you just go right down the line. They said it's going to support abortion, and then we have 60,000 Catholic nuns, 600 Catholic hospitals, 1,400 Catholic nursing homes, a bunch of Catholic theologians saying this is not a pro-abortion bill, this is a pro-life bill. Same thing with illegal immigrants. Then they say it's going to spend a ton of money, and then the Congressional Budget Office, a neutral third party, says it's going to save $1.2 trillion, reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years, $130 billion in the first decade.…”