Political Quotes

“The patient we have been trying to bring back to health is not a stimulus package. The patient that has been in the hospital bed has been the economy. We have had a sick economy, and we have been working to try to figure out how we might ensure the full, complete, and healthy recovery of that economy. Today, we pull the plug, if you will, from that recovering economy. We pull the plug on hope for a stimulus package. It is not going to happen. I do not think we ought to spend our time today, tomorrow, or this week casting aspersions--Democrats on Republicans or vice versa. There has been a lot of good will and a lot of effort exerted in October, November, December, January, and even earlier this month by both sides, people of good will trying to figure out how we infuse capital investments, how we reach out to those who lost their health care, how we reach out to those who are losing unemployment benefits, how we help States that are struggling financially right now. There is an old saying which I think everybody has used once or twice: The first rule is do no harm.”