Political Quotes

“Mr. President, across Arizona, I am hearing from families who are doing everything right. They are working longer hours-- sometimes two or three jobs--budgeting carefully, trying to save for their families and their children's futures. But they are still paying more at the grocery store and more for rent and barely making it from one paycheck to the next. One emergency, whether it is a car repair or a medical bill, could throw the entire monthly budget out of whack. That is what people are living every single day. So when they hear that Congress is once again debating another tax cut--but not for them, for billionaires and giant corporations--they wonder: Who in Washington really cares about me? Who is Washington working for? This is a handout to a tiny fraction of some of the wealthiest people in the world, people who already have more money than they could spend in a lifetime. If you raise taxes on the billionaires and multimillionaires, which is what we should be doing, they would still be billionaires and multimillionaires. But, once again, Republicans want to instead cut their taxes, and working families are going to be the ones left holding the bill because this debate is not about numbers on a spreadsheet. This budget is about what gets cut to pay for those tax breaks.…”