Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, let me issue my dissent, my objection, to what I think is one of the cruelest tradeoffs that can ever been offered on the House floor, and it has been offered here, and that is the idea that if we do not build B-2's, somehow we are going to spend the money on a lot of happy areas like breast cancer research and other attractive areas that all of us, as Members of Congress, want to fund. That is a tradeoff of guns for butter. As my colleagues know, I am reminded, when I visit my aunt and uncle's house in Fort Worth, TX; there is a picture on the mantle, and that picture is one of my second cousins who was killed in Korea, Son Stillwell. He was killed in Korea, one of some 50,000 KIA there in a war that we were not prepared to fight because a previous Congress, a Congress after World War II, did not want to spend the money for a strong national defense, and we had all the same answers that have been given here today as to why we do not need a robust B-2 force.”