I won't say it again, but I was right.

It wasn't me that held them up as the biggest liars of the year. It was PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist crowd.

They have emulated his tactics of repeating a lie over and over and not letting the truth.

They wanted to take back their government.

The Tea Party people are -- are -- are kind of like without robes and hoods. They have really shown a -- a -- a very hard-core, angry side of America that is against any type of diversity.

The Tea Party did arise kind of like the Klan did after the Civil War. There were people who were out of power. They wanted their power back.

Well, thank you. Today, when I came on the floor, Ms. Slaughter--one of the senior Members of this Congress, an outstanding Member and the former chairperson of the Rules Committee, now the ranking member--told me of a Member on the other…

I think telling lies is uncivil, and I think somebody needs to stand up to the lies that are being told.

The KKK is reprehensible. But, when they started, they were not out lynching as their primary purpose. Their primary purpose was to try to get back political power.

Well, there are so many problems. I represent an urban district in Memphis, and we do have a lack of health care in the urban areas. We need more primary care doctors, and we also need more community health centers. That's something else…

They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie. Just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it, like blood libel.