Political Quotes

“as so many Texans gathered yesterday in Austin to honor Senator Ralph Yarborough, I was reminded of his urging that we ought to put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it. How appropriate those words are this morning. Speaker Gingrich wants to put all the jam up there on the top shelf so that those who are sitting comfortably on the top ladder can reach up there and get the tax breaks and the crown jewels. Those that are down there on the bottom rung, working families, they reach into the cupboard and they find it bare. All they get is a notice for raised taxes under this Republican economic plan. Mr. Speaker, meanwhile the Speaker is talking about getting this country into a jam of a far different type: Defaulting on the full faith and credit of the United States of America, the kind of idea we would have only heard on the crackpot circuit a year ago. Well, it is time to stop jeopardizing with these political shenanigans the future of working families across America.”