Political Quotes

“it is early in the debate but one thing is clear: our friends on the other side of the aisle seem to want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to blame the majority for the national debt and the rising cost of Federal spending, but the only solution they seem to offer is more spending or more taxes. Increased spending or increased taxes. How can either of those two solutions be the right prescription for getting our fiscal house in order? There is no better example of the challenges we are facing than the need to secure our homeland. And as you know, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, our administration and this Congress responded in a bipartisan way to create a centralized agency to coordinate our Nation's homeland security efforts. But creating an entirely new agency, particularly following September 11, was no easy task. At that time, the organization of the Department of Homeland Security marked the largest single agency opening in nearly four decades, dating back on the creation of the Department of Energy. It also required the reshuffling of 180,000 employees and the transfer of some 22 Federal agencies from one area of government control to another. A department of this size and scope certainly needs a sufficient level of funding to carry out its goals and objectives; and, initially, $50 billion was set aside just for this purpose.…”