Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I appreciate the gentleman for asking. My dear friend, very respectfully, has asked a good question. As a matter of fact, we would like to move forward with all 150 as quickly as possible. What we would like to do is move through these. We've got them now. They are lined up to go to our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol. But they don't want to do that. Why would I move forward if they don't want to do that? Why would we move forward if they do not actually really want to open up the government except under their terms? We believe that they have not addressed the underlying problems: Number one, what is happening with this thing called ObamaCare, and secondly, with the debt? We are adding debt as we speak. We have gone from $9- to $17 trillion in just a few short years. We have been working with the President. We have been doing things in the 3 years that Republicans have been back in the majority. We are trying to correct the errors of the past. That is why we are here today. The gentleman asked a good question: Wouldn't it be a good thing to get through our list of 150? I would say to the gentleman, we have already done some and we will keep doing them. I reserve the balance of my time.”