Political Quotes

“I would say that the most interesting aspect of the November 8 election is that 62 percent of the American people did not vote. We do not discuss that. Always, it seems to me that the more important the issues are, the less discussion takes place here on the floor of the Congress. With 62 percent of the people not bothering to vote on election day, Mr. Speaker, with poor people virtually not voting at all, many working people not bothering to participate, what that tells me, Mr. Speaker, is that the ordinary American is by and large giving up on the political process, does not have very much faith that the U.S. Government is capable of responding to the terrible pain and to the terrible problems those people have. What in fact the ordinary people see, I think, is a lot of talk going on here in Congress, the White House, the Senate, and meanwhile the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and the middle-class shrinks. Forty million Americans continue not to have any health insurance.”