David Bonior Quotes (33 Quotes)

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

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

They are flowing into the mainstream of where American politics and the American people are, ... Nobody wants to have high levels of arsenic in their drinking water. They understand that. They voted with us today to implement that.

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.

This is a repeated pattern of abuse by the speaker over a period of years, and I think Mr. Forbes and other Republicans have sort of had it with this, ... Meet the Press.

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,

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

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.

We have not gotten the final word yet.

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

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,

This is the Bobby Knight of trade deals, ... You abuse and abuse and abuse, and we come back and say, 'Okay, you can do it one more time.'

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,

America should not give up the leverage to bring about democratic reforms,

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.

wants to borrow the money from a former politician who recently signed on with one of the largest lobbying firms in Washington.

Today this tree represents our hope. Even more than our faith, this small tree, (like) the democratic values that guided the first Congress to meet here, will continue to grow and to guide all the Congresses to come, ... And even though the wind may rustle its branches every so often, this tree, like our democracy itself, will only grow stronger over time.

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

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 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.'

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.

Now, whether there will be a vast majority of Democrats, I think, depends to a large extent on what happens with the specifics,

I think the timing is just atrocious on the part of the Republicans on this issue, ... We need not have this on the floor while the peace process is in a very critical stage.

Some Democrats saw sinister motives. Mr. Dole works for a large lobbying firm with interests before Congress, ... Isn't that a conflict of interest

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.

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.

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.

This trade agreement is the past masquerading for the future,

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.

There's only one marriage (the bill) would strengthen, and that's the longstanding romance between the Republican leadership and those who are most well off in this country, ... two-fisted assault on the U.S. Treasury.

As House G.O.P. leaders rallied to support his re-election, Democrats circled ravenously. Said David Bonior, Democratic whip and the Speaker's nemesis Mr. Gingrich engaged in a pattern of tax fraud, lies and cover-up in paving his road to the second highest office of this land. He is not worthy of that office. ... The Gingrich case does not end here.

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.

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