Political Quotes

“I appreciate the observations of our colleague, the gentlewoman from Hawaii, and the gentleman's response, because I think as you described how Medicare would be eventually destroyed, what the gentleman is really getting to is, to use the Speaker's own words, Speaker Gingrich, saying that he was going to let it wither on the vine. That is, I suppose, an indication. We have the Republican majority leader quoted down in Houston the other day, and my colleague, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey], saying that he views Medicare as an imposition on his freedom. But they recognize that the Medicare Program, which it is now almost 31 years of existence since President Johnson signed it into law, we now have, instead of more than half of America's seniors having no health insurance, we have 99 percent covered. So they realize that they cannot have a direct assault to just abolish and vote against the program. That is what they want to do.…”