Political Quotes

“I am very intrigued by the gentleman's charts, and it seems to me, based on the number of speakers that we have had in this hour that we have been given; my question is, Mr. Stockton used to say that what we have to do in order to get rid of these social programs that the Democrats have put forward like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, is starve the beast. Is this not the method that is now being used? We have just heard the gentleman from Washington State talk about what is going to happen next week with respect to Medicare. We saw a budget atrocity last week. And now we are talking about taxes, a tax cut tomorrow that basically leaves us, as your charts amplify, with no money to provide for these much-needed and highly successful and highly valued programs that have helped all of our citizens.”