Political Quotes

“I look forward to offering two rollcall votes on motions to instruct conferees to the so-called ``competitiveness'' bill based on the assurances given to me by the majority leader. I am not quite sure when we are going to get to that, but I look forward to offering those two rollcall votes. The first motion would instruct the conference committee not to provide $53 billion to the highly profitable microchip industry without protections for the American people. The second motion would instruct conferees not to provide a $10 billion bailout to Blue Origin, a space company owned by Jeff Bezos, the second-wealthiest person in America, who is also the owner of Amazon. Amazon is a company which, in a given year, pays nothing-- zero--in Federal income taxes after making billions in profits; and, by the way, in a given year, Mr. Bezos himself, one of the wealthiest people in the country, has paid nothing in Federal income taxes despite being worth nearly $200 billion. Let me be very clear. Mr. Bezos has enough money to buy a very beautiful $500 million yacht. It looks very nice to me, not that I know much about yachts; but that one looks very nice. Mr. Bezos has enough money to purchase a $23 million mansion with 25 bathrooms. I am not quite sure you need 25 bathrooms, but that is not my business--and here is that mansion. So, no, count me in as somebody who does not think that the taxpayers of this country need to provide Mr.…”