Political Quotes

“the world now knows that the Bush administration withheld reliable information regarding the true cost of the Medicare privatization bill they pushed through this House in the middle of the night. According to The New York Times today, and I quote, ``New government estimates suggest that employers will reduce or eliminate prescription drug benefits for 3.8 million retirees when the Medicare bill becomes operable in 2006.'' That represents one-third of all the retirees with employer-sponsored drug coverage, according to documents from the Department of Health and Human Services. We know how that bill passed in the middle of the night, 6 o'clock in the morning, after the vote was held open for 3 hours, got the President out of bed at 4 o'clock in the morning to twist arms, and we have done this to Americans, especially America's retirees. It reminds me of a verse from there scriptures that says ``Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil.''”