"Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." —Abraham Lincoln
We the People...
On Quotable "Dome Gnomes"
"We were at the top and we've fallen very hard. So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression. They want to know what I've done for them, and that's why it's important for me, any chance I get, to say that my number one job is to create jobs." —Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on MSNBC's The Ed Show on October 21, 2010
"It is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance [to create jobs]." —Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
"What this [senate healthcare] bill does is we finally take that step, as our leader said earlier, we take that step from healthcare as a privilege to healthcare as an inalienable right ["endowed by the Creator?"] of every single American citizen... Like every right that we’ve ever passed for the American people we revisit it later on to enhance and build on those rights. And we will do that here, surely, that we will enhance and build on this, but we have made that first and most important step: to make it a right rather than a privilege." —Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
"It takes a great man to build a barn. Any jackass can kick it down. Campaign ‘10: You with the builders or the asses?" —Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) using Twitter© to describe the November 2010 midterms
"My fear is that the whole island [Guam] will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize." —Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
"Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we’d like to be and singing ‘Kumbaya’ is another day we’re not punching Bill O’Reilly in the nose." —Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY)
"The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation [ObamaCare] that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people." —Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)
“The only way to get Congress to balance the budget is to give them no choice, and the only way to keep them out of the cookie jar is to give them no choice, which is why – whether it’s balanced budget acts or pay as you go legislation or any of that – is the only thing. If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.” —Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA)
"Whether the guy who did this [parked car bomb in Times Square], or the people who did this were with some Islamic terrorist group or whether they were some right-wing nut group or whether they were by themselves, in one sense it doesn't matter." —Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
In a bid to stem taxpayer losses for bad loans guaranteed by federal housing agencies Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) proposed that borrowers be required to make a 5% down payment in order to qualify. His proposal was rejected 57-42 on a party-line vote because, as Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) explained, “passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”
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