Political Quotes

“We are going to do a couple different things tonight. I am going to spend some time talking about growth. I am one of those who believes growth is moral. If you listen to my brothers and sisters on the left or many of us on the right, we are talking about how much poorer America is today. The fact of the matter is, working men and women in this country today are poorer than they were 2 years ago. From the day Joe Biden was elected to today, if you are in my district--I have one of the highest, if not the highest, inflation in America. I have the Phoenix-Scottsdale area--you are about 6 percent poorer because inflation has been this high, your wage growth is here. It is always amusing to me when our brothers and sisters on the left talk about income inequality, working men and women, and then the very policies that are advocated basically make us poorer. Another thing I have to say is--and I have to say this over and over and over--in 2011, Standard and Poor's put out a paper and they downgraded the United States' debt, and their downgrade was a tick. We were AAA, and we went to AA+, but if anyone would bother to read it-- because if I hear one more person from the press go, well, in 2011 when they had the debt ceiling fight, they got downgraded. That isn't what S&P said. Read the damn thing. It is very simple: We got downgraded as a country because we were not doing anything about debt. It makes it very clear.…”