Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the remaining time. My assumption is my friends to the left truly believe if you say it often enough, it might become true. Even if it doesn't become true, if you say it often enough, perhaps someone watching will assume that the words being spoken are somehow true. We've heard it several times in the last hour, things that have been said over and over again because we are obviously once again in an election year. After hearing the arguments made by the other side regarding the previous question, there is no doubt that we are in an election year. To clarify, any future changes in benefits to Social Security or Medicare would also and always apply to Members of this body. There are no exceptions, Mr. Speaker, no, not one exception whatsoever. There are no carve-outs in the law giving special treatment to Members of Congress under Social Security or Medicare. But if you say it often enough, perhaps someone, somewhere watching somewhere in this Nation will come to the conclusion that it must be right. Let me say it one more time. Members of Congress will comply with the law as it is on Social Security and Medicare. Secondly, we have heard consistently over and over again--and this is another part of that alternate universe that doesn't exist unless you want someone to believe something that is simply not true--that somehow recapturing overpayments of health care subsidies is now considered a tax.…”