Quotes by Eric Massa - Page 1

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Devil
Son
Steam
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I do believe in God. That's why I'm alive.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Alive
Believe
Believe In God
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I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Believe
Care
Crisis
Health Care
Health Believe Care
Imminent
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I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Congressman
Navy
Translated
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I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Familiar
Staff
Allowed
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Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Begging
Seven
Phone
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I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Helpful
Thinking
Vote
District
I Am Doing Will
Interests
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I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Collateral
Damage
Hours
Nor
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In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Changing The World
Health Care
Health World Care
Everyone Else
Imperative
Insurance
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I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Naked
Political
Yelling
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Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Children
Mother
Son
Spawn
Steam
Vote
Sell
Locomotive
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My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Clear
Good Friend
Player
Team
Future Good Me
Quote
Several
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Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
50th Birthday
Dumb
Guy
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And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Health
Administration
Dots
Health Care
House
Bill
Connect
Gotten
Pass
Rid
This Administration
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You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Health Care
Innocent
Vote
Bill
Washington
Deciding
Gentlemen
Ladies
Rid
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You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as not to understand what is going on in Washington, D.C.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Gentleman
Thinking
Today
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Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Independence
British
Burned
Debt
Declaration
Missed
Patrol
Possessions
Remaining
Signed
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I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Leadership
Belief
Cancer
Democratic
Health Care
Recurrence
Bill
Destroy
Simultaneously
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Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Friendship
Conscious
Decision
Flash
Harm
News
Protect
Soldier
Bonds
Works
Buddies
Conscious Decision
Gives
Goes
Place
Themselves
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When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
America
Ceremony
Heard
Jersey
New Jersey
President
Staff
States
Swearing
United States
United States Of America
Words
Since
Voted
Crossing
Bill
Chief
Phone
Line
Rang
Terms
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If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Candidacy
Former
Meetings
Multiple
Presidency
War Believe I Believe
David
Cheney
Commander
Deployed
Dick Cheney
Discuss
Nomination
Soldiers
Theaters
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That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Chemotherapy
Cold
Cold Weather
Deep Breath
Feels
Left
Liver
Lungs
Radiation
Scar
Take A Deep Breath
Weather
Across
Breath
Cut
Deep
Goes
Walk
Outside
Tissue
Tumor
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With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Running
Hawaii
House
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