Political Quotes

“The math is right. This President has funded this war in Iraq and Afghanistan borrowing money from future generations. He has not paid for a single day of this war by imposing a tax or cutting spending in some other area. He is the first President in the history of the United States, in the entire history of our Nation, to cut taxes in the midst of war. I am sure the Senator from North Dakota joined a lot of us in watching the Ken Burns documentary ``The War.'' It has been on for the last couple weeks on public television. One of our great friends and heroes in the Senate, Danny Inouye of Hawaii, was featured in it, as he should have been. A Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, he told the story of his life that led to his service to our country. You couldn't help but feel that America was at war. It wasn't just our soldiers and sailors and marines and airmen; America was at war. We were all involved. This war which has claimed 3,821 American lives, this war which has injured more than 30,000 of our fighting men and women, this war which has left 10,000 grievously injured with amputations and serious burns, this war has been waged in a much different way. When America was going to wage this war on terrorism, the President said: We are going to invade Iraq. And America, you can help: go shopping. That isn't what they said in World War II. They said: We can all pitch in together and get behind this effort. Then he said: We have to sacrifice.…”