Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to speak about the urgent need to prevent a tax increase in the year 2012 if the Congress does not act to extend the payroll tax cut from last year. This is fundamental when it comes to working families across the country. Some 160 million working Americans are depending upon the Congress to do its work, to do its duty, and conclude this year on a couple of matters. The principal focus of most people's attention right now, in addition to making sure we have a budget in place for the next couple of weeks and months but also, most urgently, is to make sure we are doing everything possible to bring about a cut in the payroll tax again as we did last year. So we should be voting today. We should not be waiting. We know the House has acted. I would guess that what they passed in the House will not pass in the Senate, but we should vote. Vote today. Get that done. Then both sides can sit down and work out a compromise on the payroll tax cut so we can give those 160 million American workers some measure of certainty as they begin to celebrate the holidays and prepare for our new year. When I talk to people in Pennsylvania, they say to me basically two things: Do something to create jobs or to create the environment or the condition that job creation will flow from and, they say, do it in a bipartisan way. Work together as we, meaning Americans back home, have to work together. They have to work together at home to meet a budget.…”