Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, my parents, my mother and father, are 81 years of age, alive and well, and I would like to dedicate all the work that I have put into this bill to them and I know it will benefit them immensely. My father used to say when I was a young lad, "Jim, there are three kinds of people in this world. There are shirkers, there are workers and there are jerkers. The shirkers are the people who just don't do anything. They don't contribute. They don't help. The workers are the people who roll up their sleeves and get the job done. The jerkers are the ones that all the time the workers are working they keep tugging at them, pulling at them, jerking them around trying to interfere with the work." I would submit that the Democratic Party, in all due respect, between 1965 and 1994, when they lost control of the House, were shirkers when it came to the issue of a prescription drug benefit, for they did nothing.”