Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we consider this bill today for one reason and one reason only: the Republicans took a poll. Here are the results in this report. Their pollster told them that Americans believe, ``Republicans aren't doing anything for seniors.'' I cannot believe these folks paid good money to learn the obvious. For the last 6 years, a principal Republican concern for seniors has been how to dismantle Medicare, or in the words of their great leader, how to let Medicare ``wither on the vine.'' Then this pollster gave them four pages of what were called ``phrases that work'' to explain away the well-justified feeling of the American people that Republicans are totally indifferent to the plight of seniors who have to choose between purchasing groceries and prescription medications. And here are particularly important words from Public Opinion Strategies delivered to the Republican Caucus: ``It is more important to communicate that you have a plan than it is to communicate what is in the plan.'' This is not a plan. It is a ploy. The Republican Congress is a prescription for failure.”