Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. First of all, thank you for allowing us to really talk about how great America is--I agree with you--and we are not broke. Chairman Bernanke said fast, undefined cuts will hamper the economy, and he is nonpartisan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. So what do we need to do? We need to look at our history. Twenty million jobs were created under the Democratic Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton--and then this President, with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that we supported, 3 million jobs. We know how to do this. What I would say to my friends is that we have the responsibility to be not ``any'' party, but Democrats are here to be for the American people, and this weekend, Democrats will be the ones standing in the gap for the American people. I am proud of that. My last point is, there is no shame in taking care of the vulnerable. The last thing we want to do as we leave this place in these next couple of days with the debt ceiling in place, as it should be, is to leave behind us seniors who may be thrown out of nursing homes because we didn't do what was right. So I say we can do it, and we can do the debt ceiling in the way that creates jobs and protects the American people.”