Top 10 outrageous debt ceiling quotes
#10) “It’s not going to get easier, it’s going to get harder. So, we might as well do it now. Pull off the band-aid. Eat our peas.” – President Obama
#9) “He’s getting absolutely no sleep. He’s working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise,” – White House adviser Valerie Jarrett
#8) “Let’s Pass a Bill To Cover Moon With Yogurt” – Paul Ryan (R-Wi)
#7) “This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship. I know they want to force the outcome that … their extremists would like to impose. But they are getting ready to spark panic and chaos, and they seem to be OK with that.” – DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#6) “I am concerned about this because we don’t know the details. And until we see the details, we’re going to be extremely non-committed but on the surface it looks like a Satan sandwich,” -Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri)
#5) “Now I don’t want to even have to be associated with him (Obama). It’s like touching a tar baby and you get, you get it, you know… you are stuck and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get away.” – Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
#4) “What we’re trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget,” she said. “We’re trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.” – House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi
#3) “I did not use the terrorism word. . . I said, ‘Even if that were the case, what’s been happening when you now have taken and paid the debt and move that down so we can now discuss, the nuclear weapon’s been taken out of anyone’s hands.’” – Vice President Joe Biden
#1) “We have negotiated with terrorists. . . this small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.” – Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)
