Political Quotes

“again noting the chart there, I just want to point out that certainly it is true that most individuals are happy to get any form of a tax cut from their government. That is an indisputable truth. People like to receive a tax cut. When I go home to my district and talk to people about a tax cut, they are generally enthused, even if it is a modest amount. But when you explain to them the ramification of this tax cut, the enormity of the tax cut, the extended amount of time, and then what will have to be sacrificed in order to achieve that goal, it is an entirely different story. People back in my district in Connecticut have a lot of common sense. They understand that you cannot have it all. We cannot possibly prosecute the war in Afghanistan, the war against terror, the war against Iraq and not sacrifice. And yet seemingly with both our budget proposals and now our tax cuts we are asking people to sacrifice. The people we are asking to sacrifice are the veterans, the elderly in need of prescription drugs, the towns and States as have been enumerated here today that desperately need town aid so they will not have to raise local taxes or cut programs and close schools, the communities that need school construction funds, the amount of money that will not be available for special education, that we will continue to underfund that program, a Federal commitment.…”