Political Quotes

“Right. The idiots in this Chamber voted to cause that to happen and back up what the regulators down the street are forcing on the average American. Here is what I don't get, right? All my colleagues here, if I forced my colleagues, one by one, to go down to the microphone on any one of these issues and explain to their constituents: I am going to vote--as some Republicans did last fall--I am going to vote against eliminating a kill switch in a car, which is going to dramatically increase the cost of that car, dramatically increase the cost of that windshield, dramatically increase the chance that that car is going to shut down in the 20-below-zero cold in North Dakota and leave you on the side of the road because you have a computer determining whether you can start the car, if I made every Member go defend that, they would start to think twice about it because that is a hard thing to defend. However, they didn't want to vote against it because MADD came around and lobbied for it. They didn't want to be against that, so 19 Republicans say: No. Sorry. I can't vote against killing the kill switch. If you put it out there and start really telling the American people: Hey, should we have something in there that protects people from drunk driving, they will say: Well, I guess so. What if that would cost you another $10,000 for the car? They would say: Are you out of your freaking mind? However, we do it, and we do it for the same reason Mr.…”