Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, last week, America witnessed a vivid example of how tyranny can begin in this country. The same Republican leadership here in the United States Congress that has blocked the Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act, that has blocked relief for working families on the child tax credit, that same Republican leadership was so eager to thwart the opposition that the chairman of one of the committees called in the police to break up the Democratic opposition organizing some alternatives to an important piece of legislation. This is how tyranny can begin in America, and it is certainly not unique to what happened. This is further evidence of the extremism occurring in this Congress. It is very tied to what my colleague from Texas has been talking about that occurred in the State of Texas. Indeed, it has nothing and everything to do with what happened in the Texas legislature. Nothing, in the sense that all we were trying to do in the United States Congress was not to walk out, but to walk into participation, just as we have done with the child tax credit, to say that working families ought to have an opportunity to get their taxes cut also and get this credit for their children.”