Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we're going into recess for a week. We passed a bill to keep the government running. Some of us were concerned that we were compromising with ourselves, but supposedly it was a bill that, though we compromised with ourselves, that the Senate could pass. Now we find out they've tabled the bill, and now they're talking shutdown. It's extremely disconcerting when it seems that one group believes that the best way to win politically is to have a shutdown and blame Republicans. It's also disconcerting to have a President come into this body here, speak to the House and Senate, stand here at the historic podium and lecture this body on the President's jobs bill that didn't exist while he was lecturing us. It was entirely consistent, though, with exactly 2 years before that when the President's polling data showed that people didn't think that the President's ideas for health care were good, and since he is such an incredibly gifted reader of speeches, apparently he felt if he came back to the House floor and were able to use the teleprompters and read to the body that he would be able to convince everyone to go along with the government takeover of health care completely. And that day, he kept representing things about ``his bill,'' ``this bill,'' ``my bill,'' ``my plan,'' ``this plan,'' and there was no plan. There was no bill at that time either.…”