Political Quotes

“I yield the gentleman 1 additional minute. Mr. McDERMOTT. Lo and behold, I bought the house. And you know what? Thirty years later I paid off that house. That's what investment is about. What the President is saying is that we have to invest in this country if we're going to bring it out of the problems it's in. And that means infrastructure on the ground and it means in human beings in education. {time} 1330 If we don't invest, as the Greatest Generation did after the Second World War--here came Eisenhower and said, hey, we've got to build roads. Nobody said, well, you know, we can't go in debt for all that. Nobody said we can't invest in human beings. We did the GI Bill of Rights, and that's what made us the strongest country in the world. We took every veteran who came back from the war and said here's a college education; get it and take it out and make this country work. That was investment. But not today's Republican Party. Oh, no, we can't, we mustn't. Don't you understand investment?”