Political Quotes

“I will not yield. I have stated that before, but thank you for asking. Here is where we are. I have to reiterate so I don't lose my place. Under Bill Clinton, the Democrats balanced the budget, created surpluses and 23 million jobs. George Bush came in and he held a press conference--I saw a rerun of it last night--and said, we don't need surpluses. This money belongs to the American people. Well, he didn't say what he meant. He meant it belongs to rich people--superrich people who earn over a billion and over a million dollars. He gave away the store. Then he went to war--two wars--and put that on the credit card. My friends on the other side never once said, Gee, I can't raise the debt ceiling to pay the debt. They all voted to pay. Almost to a person, they all voted to raise the debt ceiling, and it was doubled from when Bill Clinton was in office. But now, after George Bush left a mess--a god-awful mess in the debt and the deficit, and he handed President Obama a $1.2 trillion deficit--all of a sudden they blame President Obama for all of this. The American people get it. They do not buy that. They understand this. They are not happy where we are, and they shouldn't be, but they know where the problem started. You know why. Because you can't rewrite history. You could try, but those deficits and those debts--those numbers--are in the books. Unless you erase them, they will remain in the books.…”