Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. We're talking this evening about a continuing resolution, continuing to fund our government. I find it odd that the other side is complaining about our plan, yet their plan is pass it clean. That's the Senate and the President: Pass it clean. I'm not going to negotiate. Pass it clean. We're $17 trillion in debt, spending an average of $1 trillion more in the last 4\1/2\, 5 years than we take in. And so the answer is just continue. That's a plan. So we've offered a plan. And we get it; we get it that you don't like it. We don't like your plan, but we're here trying to compromise, and this amendment is part of that compromise. Yet you say work with us to make ObamaCare better, Mr. Speaker. Work with us. Yet on this, you want to complain. We're saying work with us to make the CR better. Make sure our troops and contracts, kinetic activity, are paid. Make sure that we take care of the one thing in the Constitution, the one thing that says ``provide''--because words mean things, Mr. Speaker--``provide for the common defense.'' ``Provide.'' The other phrase is ``promote.'' So we're here to make and set priorities. So we're saying as the House of Representatives, paying our military is a priority, as it should be. Mr. Speaker, I have embarked with those soldiers, men and women overseas, and watched them leave their families, watched them leave their babies behind. I have watched them.…”