Political Quotes

“Madam President, even now, more than 2 months after then President-Elect Trump nominated Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary, I still find it hard to believe. Month after month out on the campaign trail, President Trump attacked Wall Street. He said, time after time, that he was going to take on Wall Street. He attacked his opponents in the primaries and in the general election by saying that they were too close to Wall Street and, specifically, too close to Goldman Sachs. He said, regarding Secretary Clinton: She will never reform Wall Street. I know the guys at Goldman Sachs; they have total control. But he countered this by saying that he would do it differently. He promised to take on Wall Street. He promised to fight for middle-class Americans. He promised to drain the swamp and reduce and eliminate the powerful entrenched special interests here in Washington, DC. But what a change can happen within a few weeks. Less than a month after winning the Presidency--I should point out, winning the electoral college but losing by a massive margin the popular vote, the citizen vote--who does Mr. Trump pick to be Treasury Secretary? A 17-year Goldman Sachs veteran, a foreclosure king--Steve Mnuchin. So here tonight, not even a decade after the second worst financial crisis in U.S. history, we will be holding a vote on whether Steve Mnuchin is a fit character to be Secretary of the Treasury.…”