Political Quotes

“I think the first conclusion is even more important than Medicare, and that is the conclusion that, as you listen to this debate, and you listen to the way the Republican leadership has run away from Medicare, it is because the American people are paying attention, and most of the people who are informed, who have followed this debate, understand what the Republican majority, the first time they got a majority in this Congress, the first thing they went after was Medicare and Medicaid. They set out to undermine and dismantle those systems, and the American people understand that. All of the excuses and the subterfuges that have been brought up here, when you get right down to it, the American people all over this country who have followed this debate, they understand it, and they know that Speaker Gingrich set out to cut Medicare and that he is still committed to that program.”