Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is incredible, really, to listen to Members come here and talk about this very sensitive subject on which we need bipartisanship, and to have them talk about bipartisanship and inclusion, when what they have done through this rule is to move in the dead of night, after everyone was gone, to pass their version or no version and then to say to the American people, ``We have a monopoly on truth.'' No one else can even offer an amendment. If any American in this body or outside of this body has an idea about how we might deal with terrorism today, they are not open to it, because they have their way or no way. It was that kind of extremism that caused this to be a failed Congress, that led to last year's costly $1.5 billion government shutdowns, waste caused by the zealotry of this Republican leadership.”