Political Quotes

“I want to talk to you about jobs. I come into this Chamber often and hear my Democrat colleagues talk about how bad things were under the past administration, how much better off we are under this President. Well, I'll tell you one thing President Bush gave us that this President can't give us, and that's jobs. In 2003 we passed the second largest tax cuts in American history, and we had 55 consecutive months of job growth in this country, the longest period of job growth in American history. This President came into office, said, if you'll give me nearly $1 trillion in a stimulus bill, I'll make sure unemployment doesn't go over 8 percent. Well, we're at 10, we've been here for most of his Presidency, and we see no end in sight. Well, now we're talking about the unemployed. We've got 10 percent of the people hurting. They're in pain. They need our help. They need unemployment benefits, and we want to give them to them. The President says, and Speaker Pelosi says, well, the Republicans are standing in the way. They're cold-hearted. No, the problem is, they can't get the Democrats to vote for it because they want to borrow the money. We've said we want to vote for unemployment benefits, we just want to pay for them.”