Political Quotes

“every day we hear more and more about what is wrong with the President's budget, yet his critics have not put on the table one plan, one proposal, one budget, or even one idea, except to talk about cutting and balancing, cutting the heart out of the neediest people in our country: children, senior citizens, the mentally ill, disabled, and the poor. Balancing with the idea that we can get blood out of a turnip, that we can provide services and provide opportunities with very little or no money. There are a lot of things that I do not know, but I do know one thing. I know that as Frederick Douglass taught, in this world we may not get all that we pay for, but we most certainly must pay for all that we get. We cannot have a great, civilized, and humane nation without paying the cost; if all we can do is cut, cut, cut, all that we will get is blood, blood, blood. I tell you, the blood of the people will be on the hands of those who did the cutting.”