Political Quotes

“I will tell you what I think has been the biggest faux pas, the biggest mistake, the biggest blunder that liberals have made on the floor this year and have made in speeches throughout the country, and this goes all the way from the White House right down to the people that run the political operations at the grassroots, and that is the liberals have constantly said and they have constantly misstated the fact with respect to what Republicans are trying to do, to rescue the Medicare problems that we have in this country and the Medicare program from bankruptcy. What I guess bothers me the most is the idea that you had an American President whose own cabinet members helped to bring about a report of the Medicare Trust Fund that said Medicare is going broke. We have got to do something about it. So Republicans came in with a plan that increased Medicare spending some 40 percent over the next number of years, but increased it from about $4,700 to about $6,200, increased it substantially, yet cut out waste, cut out fraud, cut out abuse, and offered a range of options to our senior citizens. In an issue that was that sensitive and that important to the American people, and particularly our moms and dads and our grandmothers and grandfathers, the decision was made at the White House just not to tell the truth, to tell a lie.”