Political Quotes

“I would like to join my friend and colleague from Oklahoma, as well as the Senator from Iowa, who has previously spoken, and the Senator from Indiana in opposing the Democrats' $1.9 trillion spending bill. The Democrats want to call it the sixth coronavirus bill. In fact, that is false. It is not a true statement because only about $1 out of every $11 being spent on this monstrosity is really focused on coronavirus health. The rest is a partisan liberal wish list that the Democrats have wanted to pass for a long, long time--long before the pandemic, long before anyone in this country had ever even heard of coronavirus. I remember President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, famously said: ``Never let a good crisis go to waste.'' Well, that is what they did under President Obama. They saw a crisis. They passed laws that had nothing to do with what had caused it. And now here we are a dozen years later. President Biden is in the White House, and he is using that playbook once again. President Biden's Chief of Staff calls this bill, the one coming to the floor right now--he described this on MSNBC the other day as--``the most progressive domestic legislation in a generation''--``the most progressive domestic legislation in a generation.'' More progressive than ObamaCare, more progressive than the Obama-Biden stimulus--that doesn't sound like a coronavirus relief bill to me. The White House Chief of Staff admits this isn't mainstream. This is radical.…”