Political Quotes

“Mr. President, if ever there were an issue that ought to be bipartisan, it is tackling the Zika virus because this virus, of course, is taking an enormous toll on our country. What we are seeing is women and men getting infected, research stalling out, and babies being born with deformities and severe disabilities. My view is there shouldn't be anything partisan about tackling this. It ought to be common sense. The Senate ought to come together, and we should have done it quite some time ago. Yet Republican leaders seem to be putting this into slow motion because they want to limit access to the very health services pregnant women depend on for their care. When you listen to their view, it is almost like giving pregnant women cans of bug spray and wishing them good luck. In my view, that defies common sense. What I have always felt--and this has been true throughout my time in public service--is that with the big public health issues where the safety and well-being of so many Americans is on the line, you say: What we are going to do is we are going to do our job, we are going to come together, and we are going to do it in a bipartisan fashion based on what researchers and public health authorities say makes sense.…”