Political Quotes

“I come to the floor after having seen the minority leader and then the minority whip on the floor this morning talking about the President's health care law. It is a law that the President said people should forcefully defend and be proud. What I heard was a defense of a bill--now a law--that was passed solely along partisan lines a number of years ago. It is very hard to be proud or defend that law based on what the American people are experiencing. I come to the floor noting that the President is from the home State of Illinois, the minority whip is from the home State of Illinois, and there have been a number of stories in the press recently from that State about just how horrendous the impact of the law has been on the people of the President's home State, to the point that just yesterday there was a story in the Washington Examiner with the headline ``Illinois gets ready for huge Obamacare rate hikes.'' People say: Well, what is not to like about ObamaCare? According to a Crain's Chicago Business report dated August 27--the headline is ``What's not to like about ObamaCare? Plenty in Illinois.'' There is plenty in Illinois not to like about ObamaCare, but it is not just Illinois and it is not just Nevada, where the minority leader is from; a Gallup poll of the entire country that recently came out showed that more Americans are negative than positive about the health care law. Have there been some people who have been helped? Absolutely.…”