Political Quotes

“I rise after 10 years of being in the Senate and after having endured speech after speech after speech on this floor that has claimed the Republican Party is the party of fiscal discipline. It was politics that created something during the depths of the worst recession, called the tea party, which rallied all over America to stop what it said was runaway spending. When I arrived here, I actually believed that the Republican Party was a fiscally responsible party, that there was some principle behind it. I know better today. I was naive. It is all about politics. There have been five budget deals since 2013 between Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and whoever has happened to be in the White House. These deals were meant to overcome the idiocy of the across-the-board cuts that were created by the sequestration--which nobody in America understands but which are basically across-the-board cuts on spending-- that otherwise would have been investments in your family, maybe, or investments in our military. They were agreed to as part of a fiscal cliff deal in the dark of night, at 2 o'clock in the morning, by nobody--literally nobody--who had actually read the bill. Ever since then, politicians in Washington have been making deals to try to overcome it. When President Obama was President, this is how much money he was allowed to spend. Since Donald Trump has been President, this is the money that the Republicans have spent.…”