Political Quotes

“I just left a meeting of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. The request of this administration for the next year for the war in Iraq is $189 billion--$189 billion. That comes out to about $15 billion a month that they are asking for this war for the next year. It is my understanding that this bill we are going to present to the President to provide health insurance for somewhere in the range of an additional 5 million kids is going to cost us $6 billion or $7 billion a year. So the war in Iraq is costing us $15 billion a month; this program, which the President says we can't afford, to provide health insurance for our own children, will cost us about $7 billion a year--a year. It would seem to me that a strong America begins at home. It begins with our families, our kids, with our neighborhoods and communities, and I think the President has overlooked that. If we are going to be strong for the future, we have to help our kids have the kind of health insurance coverage that gives them a fighting chance.”