Political Quotes

“several of our Republican colleagues have said quite forthrightly this morning that this bill has nothing to do with Enron, that it has nothing to do with those corporations that renounce America and move off to Bermuda. They are absolutely right in those statements. That is what is wrong with this bill. That is why we have a substitute, and every reason to vote for this substitute is a reason to vote against the underlying bill. It is strange that Congress would meet today to solve a problem that is alleged to exist for people on New Year's Eve of 2010, instead of dealing with the problems that American families face today in 2002. But I think there is a friend of mine down in Austin, Texas, who understands why this is true. His name is Willy Nelson. He sang a song that goes, ``If you've got the money, honey, I've got the time.'' Let me tell you something: the people that ``got the money,'' they are the people who are running this Congress. They keep setting an agenda to help the privileged few at the top and ignore the corporate misconduct that has occurred in this country, much of which would never have happened had they not enabled it to happen with the bills they passed and the bills they held up in committee. This Democratic substitute addresses a real 2002 problem, not some mythical concern out in 2010.”