Political Quotes

“Madam President, I am pleased to supplement the remarks of our distinguished leader with respect to Social Security. Rhode Island has I believe the largest participation per capita in Social Security in the country. Social Security is what brought American seniors out of poverty and into a distinguished and fair retirement, and it really matters that we defend it and that Social Security remain unbroken. The threat is pretty clear. The President keeps talking about imaginary fraud. Why would you talk about imagery fraud in a system unless you have some motive? It wasn't just him. Elon Musk talked relentlessly about fraud in the Social Security system. The Secretary of Commerce went a mile out of his lane to add a shot at Social Security being riddled with fraud. Then the President went to the other end of the building there, stood at the rostrum of the House, and lied to the American people, flat-out lied to the American people about Social Security fraud. He let Elon Musk call it a Ponzi scheme as well. This is a battering ram of misinformation and disinformation, and it doesn't happen without a motive. The motive here is to degrade public confidence in Social Security. At the same time, you sent what I call your little ``Muskrats''--you sent your ``Muskrats'' into Social Security to disrupt its operations.…”