Political Quotes

“Madam President, I appreciate getting to hear that story again. I have heard that story a number of times from the Senator from Wisconsin. I think it shows how special this effort is to try to get people the health care they want at a price they can afford and how ObamaCare has done just the opposite. Rather than being part of this false narrative about a war on women, there are a lot of women and young girls who have been harmed by ObamaCare, which has been a disaster. Of course, I remember being here on Christmas Eve, 7 a.m., 2009, when our Democratic colleagues, then in the majority, had 60 votes and they passed ObamaCare without a single Republican vote. I think that was a terrible mistake. It was a terrible mistake to take something as important to most Americans or virtually to every American--their health care--and totally reform the health care system in a partisan way and one that could not be sustained. Indeed, we have seen in the 5 years since that time that our country's health care system is in complete disarray. We have all read the headlines that describe the double-digit premium increases and the skyrocketing deductibles that make people wonder why they should buy health insurance in the first place. I guess the answer to that is this: If you don't, under ObamaCare you are going to get penalized. That is the individual mandate that President Obama at one point said he was opposed to when he ran for President in 2008, although I guess he came to love it.…”