Political Quotes

“That's right. I don't think we do either. The original Senate bill was 2,000 pages. We had a manager's amendment, and a reconciliation bill on top of that. We are talking close to 4,000 pages, and now the bureaucrats have to take that bill and put it into regulatory language. We may not know certainly for months and maybe years everything that is in here. It really comes down to one word, and it is credibility. To say one thing, words one way and your actions completely opposite, it lacks credibility. We shouldn't be surprised. We saw that going back. Stretch our imaginations, we don't have to go that far back, we saw that a little over a year ago with the stimulus bill. The President said we have to do this stimulus bill. It was his words then that said we have to do this stimulus bill because if we don't, unemployment may go over 8 percent. So we spent $878 billion on the stimulus bill; and in the end, what did we get? Well, we are at 10 percent or just under 10 percent unemployment at this point.”