Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I think dates matter and I think votes matter, and I think that sometimes because of where we are, this is kind of this Potomac amnesia. We say we want to raise people's wages, we want to create jobs, we want to be able to do things that lift every single boat because that is what a rising tide does. It is not a Democrat tide; it is not a Republican tide; it is a rising tide for the American people. I would just want to remind my colleagues, in December of 2017, not one of you was on board with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. You could not vote for it in the House; you could not vote for it in the Senate. And we come here today and we talk about minimum wage and raising minimum wages, and I would just suggest to you that America is not about minimals. Nobody comes to America because I may get a minimum wage increase. They come to America because of maximum opportunity. Why would we dwell on a minimum wage when you had the chance in December of 2017 to lift all boats? Why would we turn our back on an opportunity to completely change the economy of the United States? Why would we turn our back on workers who had not been employed for many years, and we sit today with millions of open jobs and we don't have enough workers to fill them? And what are we talking about today? We are trying to right a wrong. We are trying to fix, somehow, a wrongheaded decision to vote against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.…”