Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. They say that talk is cheap, but for hardworking Americans, the President's talk is very expensive. President Obama has spent the past year making speech after speech about the need for Washington to restore fiscal discipline. But what he says isn't what he does. During the campaign, Obama promised he would go through the budget line by line to reduce spending. But it seems as though a few lines is all that he has cut. The President began his campaign last spring when he rushed to the microphone to announce his order to his cabinet to reduce spending by $100 million. Then he went to the podium to tout more fiscal restraint by announcing a spending freeze. But we quickly learned that it affects less than 20 percent of the budget. Recent press reports reveal he cut $1 million in funding for an Olympic scholarship program, and another $2 million subsidy for cotton and peanuts. If the President is serious about fiscal discipline, he is going to have to remove more than a couple of peanuts from his Federal budget. These meager cuts are just another example of the administration's arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. The President has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for 2011, boosting the deficit to a record high of $1.6 trillion, a record he broke last year when he introduced a budget with a $1.4 trillion deficit. Let me put that into perspective. The average deficit when Republicans were in power was $104 billion.”