Political Quotes

“I want to thank Majority Leader Hoyer for his exemplary leadership and thank the distinguished chair of the Ways and Means Committee, Richard Neal, for his friendship and his wise counsel. Madam Speaker, you be the judge. Two weeks ago, the World Economic Forum held its annual conference in Davos, and the central theme of the meeting this year was climate change, the most critical issue we face. President Trump spoke at the conference, but instead of focusing on climate change, he made what amounts to a campaign speech, claiming that he has worked a miracle with the U.S. economy. The fundamental basis of his argument is wildly wrong. He claimed that the economy he inherited from Barack Obama was ``in dismal shape.'' On the basis of this fundamental rewriting of history, he claimed credit for the strong U.S. economy. The economy is booming, he proposed, not because Barack Obama helped dig us out from the worst recession since the Great Depression or because of the hard work and ingenuity of the American worker, but because of Donald Trump's magical touch, the same magical touch he had with his Atlantic City casinos which went bankrupt, and Trump Shuttle and Trump University and Trump Mortgage and Trump Steaks and the Trump board game and Trump Vodka. That is quite a record. I am a businessman. With my brother, my sister, my dad, we spent 46 years now building a highly successful company.…”