Political Quotes

“I feel a quiet anger because I think something is being contemplated in this House that is going to be detrimental, perhaps devastating, to what I would consider the second most important piece of legislation Congress has ever passed to help seniors, and I am talking about the Medicare program. A lot of people in this chamber are nervous because they are afraid if they do not support this bad bill that our Republican friends will get a lot of money from the pharmaceutical companies, the President will go out and raise a lot of money and they will run a lot of TV ads. They are especially nervous because of the action of the AARP, the recent decision of the AARP to endorse this shameful piece of legislation, but I have heard from some of my constituents who are members of the AARP in the last few days, and they are outraged. They are outraged at their national leadership, and so I am not at all intimidated by the fact that the AARP has seemingly sold out the people they are supposed to be representing.”