Political Quotes

“Later this week, this House will take up the second iteration--the second coming, if you will--of the House Republican budget, a budget designed to destroy Medicare, basically to terminate it for anyone who's 55 years or younger, a plan designed to put Social Security on a track to privatization, a plan designed to take nearly $700 billion out of the Medicaid program, basically destroying those things that have held the fabric of America together. Have no illusions about what this is all about. It's not just a constitutional amendment; it's not just cut and cap. It is really about destroying Medicare, Medicaid, programs that are essential for seniors. If you want to make a cut in something, why don't you take a third of a trillion dollars out of the war in Afghanistan, which is what we're going to spend over the next 4 years? Now there's a good cut that we ought to make. ____________________”