Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I very much appreciate this opportunity to speak here on the floor. The topic again will be health care because, even though most of Americans are more concerned about the economy, as am I, and jobs, because the President keeps trying to shove this thing into the lap of Americans--actually, it will control the lap of Americans--we have to deal with this until we can start over, start fresh, get the special interest groups, the unions, AARP, those people who have been meeting in the last few weeks behind closed doors, away from C-SPAN cameras, getting special deals for themselves, we start over and start fresh. And the number one most important aspect is not the unions. It is not AARP. It is retired people. It is seniors. It is Americans across the country. It is the poor. It is the wealthy. It is everybody. {time} 1245 Those people who are United States citizens, those are the number one concern, should be, under a newly negotiated bill. I just got sent a copy of an e-mail that has gone all over the country apparently from a group called Organizing Against America--I'm sorry, Organizing for America, it just sounds like they're organizing against America--and it has an individual's name, first name. It says: ``President Obama has called for the House to vote to move health reform forward as early as next week.…”