Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, my constituents are kind, caring, gracious people; but they have a hard time understanding why the steelworkers losing their jobs along the Ohio River, and as a result of bankruptcy of the steel industry, losing their health benefits as retirees, many of them in their mid-fifties with health problems, no insurance company wants them; and even if they could get an insurance company that would sell them a policy, they could not possibly afford it because they have no job, and these people are wondering why we have a double standard when it comes to our willingness to do what this administration, this President says he wants to do for Iraq when the people who built this country worked hard, played by the rules, many of them fought in our wars, are wondering why they are considered to be second priorities instead of first priorities.”