Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today, and as I do so, Washington has an incredible opportunity for a new beginning--a beginning that would begin by listening to the American people and what the American people want, and not just what Washington and the Democrats in this body think is best for all the American people. According to a new Associated Press poll, most Americans say health care reform is the top issue they want the government to work on this year--the top issue they want government to work on this year. Fifty- two percent of people have said that is what they are asking us to work on. People have seen--and I heard about this all around Wyoming over the Christmas holiday--the complete failure of the health care law's big rollout last year. They saw President Obama and they saw Washington Democrats break one promise after another. As a matter of fact, one of the President's promises was designated ``the lie of the year.'' The American people have lost faith this administration can ever get health care reform right. It wasn't just a bad Web site. The President said: Well, the Web site was bad. He said: The health care law is more than a Web site. In spite of what the Obama administration has said, it wasn't all fixed last year because the Web site is just the tip of the iceberg. And huge Web site failures? Absolutely.…”