Political Quotes

“2 months ago, I had an occasion to give a commencement speech in the rural part of my District. And after the speech, a woman walked up to me; she had tears in her eyes, and I assumed that she was crying about the graduation of her child that day, but she walked up to me and she looked at me and she said, Mr. Davis, I have a husband who serves in the Army National Guard. He has been in Iraq for 2 months now, has been in the Middle East for about a year, and every morning I get up and I turn my television on CNN, and I see that another American life has been lost, and for a span of a few seconds my heart jumps up into my throat, and I wonder until I see the name. When I spoke to that lady, Mr. Chairman, I could not talk with her about the geopolitics of our commitment in Iraq. I could not talk with her about whether or not it was right or wrong for us to engage this conflict because I do not think that she terribly cared. She, like so many other Americans, though, was searching for a solution to this conflict. I would like to be able to say to her that if her family and her husband are asked to sacrifice, that the sacrifice is not just limited to the middle ranks of this country. I would like to be able to say, as the ranking member of this committee said earlier, that if some are asked to pay any price or bear any burden that that will include some of the wealthiest Americans whose taxes have been cut in the last several months.…”