Eric Massa Quotes

• 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

  Topics in America

  Tags in Words, Against

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Someone, Deep

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Lost, Look

• In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

  Eric Massa

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Care, Without

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Believe, True

• 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

  Topics in Decision, Friendship, Life

• Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.

  Eric Massa

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Day, Between

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Healthcare, World

• 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

  Topics in Children, Mother

• 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

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Friend

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Damage, Road

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interests, Think, Helpful

• I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.

  Eric Massa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Familiar

• I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

  Eric Massa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congressman

• I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

  Eric Massa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Healthcare

• 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

  Topics in Country, Leadership

  Tags in Democratic

• 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

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Healthcare

Eric Massa (17)

Birth:	16th September, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Naval Officer, Politician

About

Eric James Joseph Massa was born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He is an American politician and Naval officer. He is a former U.S. Representative for the 29th Congressional District of New York, who served in Congress from January 2009 until his resignation in March 2010. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1981 and went on to serve in the Navy for 24 years.

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