David Bonior Quotations

So isn't it ironic that Newt Gingrich is attempting to put his ethic problems behind him with a plan that requires a whole new investigation by the ethics committee?

Nobody has the votes yet. We can beat this thing.

Nobody mentioned the word resignation, nobody mentioned the word impeachment, ... This was a meeting for the president to express to us his sorrow, his concern, this was a person who felt very deeply about the pain he has caused.

But they're hanging in there because they know with those bad hips and arms, they will need a patients' bill of rights to be better,

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade, ... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

I advised him that the president needs to make clear to the American people, in a way that he did to us today, his contrition, his sorrow for his actions, and he needs to do that not just once, he needs to understand that this is a process that is ongoing, that this issue will be raised time and again throughout the weeks, perhaps even months, ... He needs to address it on a continual basis with the kind of concern that he expressed to us today but he also needs to get to the issues that he was elected to address in this country.

I think what we have here is a situation in which the president's personal behavior, inappropriate and offensive as it is, is being weighed by the American people and by members of Congress with his job performance as president of the United States, ... He has done a good job for this country.

We have not gotten the final word yet.

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

What we saw was a father, a husband, a leader of our country who was contrite and was very sorry for his actions,

We don't need another commission. What we need is action. What we need is pressure. What we need is enforcement and action.

We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot afford to buy the goods that even they make.

This trade agreement is the past masquerading for the future,

Without good, family-supporting jobs, America's workforce can neither provide a healthy tax base for public services like school systems nor a strong consumer base,

We got 30,000 people that work here and there's no communication on something as essential and as important as that.

Folks think it's wrong, but they think it's an isolated incident. They don't understand that it's often.

I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars. I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan.

I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars, ... I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan.

It would be a grave mistake to go forward with this vote while our nation is engaged in military action, ... I cannot even believe we are having this debate.

This is not the America that I spent 26 years fighting for as a US congressman. And it certainly is not the legacy I want to leave my grandchildren.

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

There's a lot of bitterness over what happened. He needs to address that. He needs to dig deeper to understand that in order for him to really bind the wounds that are out there in the country,

If the record deficits are what winning looks like, I'd sure like to know their definition of losing,

In the final analysis we believe that freedom and democracy are not byproducts for economic prosperity, they are conditions for it, ... This is not the time to vote. This is not the time to give up our leverage once and for all.

I cannot get John Edwards and John Kerry -- maybe they ought to meld here. And I think maybe they might at some point in this campaign.

This House is out of touch. It is out of control. And it is so consumed that they have just denied us a chance to vote on the one option -- the one option -- that commands the support of the American people, and that is censure,

The lawyers don't use the word 'lie.' But if someone, in the normal course of events...would have done what Newt Gingrich did to a congressional committee, they would go to jail for that.