Political Quotes

“Mr. President, there are many people in this town who say they are worried about the deficit. But all too often, those claiming the mantle of ``deficit hawk'' are pretty dovish about making the hard decisions required to reduce the budget deficit and bring down the national debt. Some use the deficit to argue for damaging important programs that provide for the safety and well-being of Americans. Others, in a brazen bit of obfuscation now decades-old, make the disproven claim that the budget-busting tax cuts they prefer would actually reduce the deficit. In this maze of distortion and debunked arguments, Kent Conrad is like a clean prairie breeze. He cares deeply about the fiscal health of our Nation, and for more than two decades, he has been dismantling faulty arguments and fuzzy budget math with facts and figures and with charts, yes, charts. In naming Senator Conrad one of the 10 best Senators in 2006. Time magazine reported that the support staff here in the Senate had become so overwhelmed by Senator Conrad's chart requests that they gave up and gave him his own printing equipment. Kent Conrad doesn't just know the facts. He wants you to know them too--and in bright colors. Behind the flash charts are deep substantive knowledge and a rigorous approach that eschews wishful thinking.…”