Political Quotes

“Yes, and I have an hour, whether I use it or not. As I said, for the past few days I have been yielding time to the other side. I haven't gotten much satisfaction out of that. I have listened for the last hour, and I didn't get any satisfaction out of that either. I did sit through all of it. I did listen to it. Again, it is complaints about the process, but not constructive suggestions on what could be done. There are taxes, mandates, regulations, lack of competition in the marketplace, increasing costs. When I travel across Wyoming, I have people who have come up to me and they say: My insurance premium is bigger than my house payment, and it is growing. And they said: If something happens to us, my deductible is bigger than my year's premium. That shouldn't happen in America, but that is where we are. Those aren't isolated cases; those are a lot of cases. That is the situation we find ourselves in. We are not trying to hurt anybody; we are trying to fix some of these things. As I said, for 8 years, every time there has been a waiver--that is part of that thing that I mentioned about the 70 changes to ObamaCare so far--a lot of those were in the way of waivers. Every time there was a waiver, I said: Why are we waiving this? Why don't we just fix it? I was told: It is not broke; it just needs more time. Well, it has had more time. Last year--this was before the election, so you can't blame us. We had no idea who was going to be the President.…”