Political Quotes

“Madam President, I don't see any other folks who want to speak on the FAA bill for the moment or on much else for the moment. I will suggest the absence of a quorum but not yet. I am hoping Senator Baucus and Senator Hatch will come down to oversee the 1099 argument and repeal of the health care bill, which is about the worst idea I have ever heard. I think it will be voted down, and I believe the minority knows that. I don't know who they are trying to speak to. When I think of the health care bill and all the work that went into it--the work that went into it is not that important, it is the product that came out. When he says the American people are against it, that was actually quite true for a year and a half, maybe almost 2 years, because we were in the process of making the bill and it was kind of like making sausage, and people turned against it. But now it is going in quite the opposite direction. Now as people begin to get some of the benefits, they understand some of the conditions they will be unbonded from, that they won't be slaves anymore to costs determined by others who don't care about their health care, I think the momentum is swinging.…”