Political Quotes

“But those charts I put up here show that without any question that part of this Government that is growing out of control are the mandatory and entitlement expenditures. We can afford to take this amount of money out of Medicare and entitlements and direct the committee before they start down the path of new programs; that is, the Finance Committee, they must first place in law permanently these cuts. Now, I wish to make one last comment because I do not know that I am going to take a lot of time today because fellow Senators on this side have a lot of amendments, but there will be one additional argument made, perhaps Senator Moynihan, chairman of the Finance Committee, or someone else will say that this will have a detrimental, perhaps some will say, a totally negative, impact on health care reform. Let me just suggest that is not so. This is such a small amount of the savings that have to be obtained and taxes that have to be imposed for the President's plan to make its way through on health care reform that this has no chance of adversely affecting that.”