Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, during the last 10 days, the American people and Members of the Congress have been in emotional shock from the terrible loss of life and tragedy that struck. We are all together struggling and trying to determine the most effective way to end terrorism and to punish those people who committed this atrocious act. But on the issue of how we can deal with the airlines and how as a Nation we deal with the perhaps coming recession, I do not think that there should be a lot of debate. The American people want to believe that we are all in this together; and when they see that 100,000 airline workers are laid off in an industry that is crumbling, they not only want to restore that industry, but they want to make sure that the workers who have been running those industries are treated fairly. They do not want to read in the papers that they are providing taxpayer dollars so that CEOs can end up with tens and tens of millions of dollars in executive compensation but, at the same time, there is apparently no money available to provide health insurance for workers who were laid off.”