Political Quotes

“But since 2001, we have cut taxes by $5 trillion. We borrowed all of that money from our children, and almost all of the benefit went to the wealthiest people in America. We spent $5.6 trillion on wars in the Middle East. We didn't pay for a single dollar of it. That is $11 trillion, $12 trillion that we could have spent to fix every road and bridge in America, that could have fixed every single airport in America that needs it, that could have made Social Security solvent for my children's generation and for the other children of the people who came out here and said: We are here to immobilize the Democratic President in the name of fiscal responsibility. But now we know the level of their fiscal hypocrisy. It knows no end. If there is one benefit of this--if there is one benefit of this, the American people are-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.”