Joe Scarborough

here we go again. Absolutely amazing. Medicare is going bankrupt, and the Democrats are doing absolutely nothing about it. They come up behind the podium just like they did last year, telling us that the Republicans are cutting Medicare…

The cold war world is over. We are no longer a bipolar world. Unfortunately, we have gone from being a bipolar world to becoming a singularly polar world. For the first time since the end of the fifth century, we are the sole superpower on…

50 years ago Harry Truman attacked the do-nothing Congress, and I think 48 years later Truman would be saying the same thing of the do-nothing Democrats. Last year we got elected to do some very specific things. We got elected to provide a…

It may surprise the gentlewoman, many on her side of the aisle and also many in this audience that the arguments that I will be making today on gas prices, on gas taxes, on the minimum wage, on Medicare, on tax cuts, on a variety of issues…

Needless to say, many people have been concerned with the behavior of elected officials on this issue. Why do I bring it up? Why do I not just leave this issue alone? It is not a good issue, right? Well, let me tell you something. I have…

I was just going to say, regardless of what is important to you on issues, we must balance the budget first. We have got to make sure that on April 15 that Americans are not paying more of their tax money to service the debt than take care…

This is not an ideological issue. If the environment is important to you, if you think we need to fund environmental cleanups, if somebody thinks that welfare is poverty to them, if somebody thinks Social Security is important, defense, it…

we have been talking so much about crime and about the prevention of crime, I am going to tell you, we are not going to be able to tackle the issue of crime until we get tough on criminals and, unfortunately, the Clinton administration…

The same people that vote against balanced budget are the same people that say we are spending too much money on defense.

If we are spending too much money on defense, we are really spending too much money on interest on the Federal debt. I say it is time we do what middle-class Americans have done for years, spend only as much money as you take in, balance…

I like trees. I think it is a good idea that we plant more trees. But let us talk about something serious and get beyond partisan bickering. Let us talk about what happened yesterday with the tax vote. We continue to hear that we are…

I have been really intrigued by this debate. We hear actually some of the architects of the Clinton health care plan, that would socialize the health care system and one-seventh of our economy, lecturing us on how we need to now fix health…

I think we can agree on the fact that more Americans do need to get involved in the political system, and I do believe that a lot of people have tuned it out, and that has been unfortunate, but that we have to do what we can to help…

We cannot end this discussion on Medicare without discussing these tax cuts... 89 percent of that tax relief goes to working families earning less than $75,000.

I go through the panhandle, hold town hall meetings all the time. As I hold town hall meetings, I hold Medicare town hall meetings, and I ask people what they think the problem is with Medicare. I cannot tell you how many people cite…

That is right. It is very interesting, you were talking about the school lunch program, and we saw and actually I talked about how we had been attacked as being extremist and Nazis and all these other things. Just absolutely ridiculous…

I agree with the gentleman 100 percent. I have to tell him, though, if we do go through a process where we block grant some of these programs back to the States, I think the important thing is that we do empower them and allow them to make…

I do not think Bill Clinton or any President should say this is what our education agenda is going to be and we have got to stick to it.

I remember back to 1993, the largest tax increase in this country, in fact in the history of mankind. I think back to that night when the vote was taken that increased taxes on Social Security up to 85 percent, where you had the Federal…

Of course, that debate will continue. I personally think our welfare bill that ended the Federal Government's oppressive mandates on States for the first time in 62 years is a great bill. Obviously, 88 Senators out of 100 Republican and…

I will tell you what we have done in Pensacola, FL. What we have started up, we started a community service network. I got together 3 or 4 months ago with community leaders. One is a doctor, Reed Bell, who has just been instrumental. He…

I want to try to bring this together, in closing, and just say this, that we have been talking about Medicare, we have been talking about education, but you know, the Democrats, some of the leadership, some of the liberals have tried to…

I thank both of you. Again, we are going to be going down there this Friday, and I am looking forward to input from all the Florida delegation and also those who have suffered under Castro as we try to move the Committee on National…

I want to thank those members from the Florida delegation, the gentlewoman from Florida [Mrs. Meek] and of course the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Diaz-Balart] and the gentlewoman from Florida [Ms. Ros-Lehtinen] and all the others that have…

I am reminded of a common strain that runs through the characteristics of most tyrants, people like Hitler and Stalin and Castro. They are complete and utter cowards, putting a jet up against a Cessna unarmed.