Political Quotes

“we hear a lot of rhetoric at times like this when we talk about taxes, when we talk about Social Security, when we talk about our future. But we need to also talk about promises and commitments that we make to people. The fact is, every dollar in a trust fund of Social Security is tied in that trust fund. And every promise we make not to cut benefits and not to raise taxes on Social Security is a commitment that we have made. It is there. It is there for a long time. The real issue that we are talking about today is a commitment that this House made to cut taxes of American working people and to keep a strong economy and trying to make commitments so this economy will work. I have heard a lot of rhetoric. Some try to bring class warfare into this whole issue. That is not the right thing to do, in my opinion. But let us set the record straight. On September 30 of this year, less than 6 months ago, we paid down $450 billion in public debt. This Congress said, "We are going to do it." This Congress did exactly that. We also said that we think American working people ought to have a fair tax break. We said that if you are a married couple, it is not common sense, it is not fair to be taxed $1,400 more if you are married than if you are single.”