Political Quotes

“You do. Congressman, one of the things that I would say tonight as I come here, I don't have any charts and I don't have any graphs with me, but just a couple of weeks ago I was home and my nephew's house burned down. I walked in there with him as we went through that house and his children were looking through just ashes. They had nothing left of even their memories. And when I go around back to my district, I've got some friends and some constituents who feel that way right now in this economy. The graphs aren't important to them. What they know is that they're suffering pain and they're looking and worried about losing everything they have in their lives. But it's because of them and it's because they understand that we can't wastefully spend money, we've got to make sure that the help we give them is directed and it's going to work, that we need to ask the tough questions. And there is one enormously tough, fundamental question that we have to ask America tonight and it's simply this. Last year, Americans lost $14 trillion of net value, net worth. The question we have, the question facing America today, is whether or not we are simply going to redistribute what's left or whether we're going to rebuild what we lost. Our friends on the other side of the aisle want to redistribute what's left. We have a program that will rebuild what was lost.”