Political Quotes

“our Nation is in a serious recession. The American recovery and reinvestment conference report that we now have before us will help create or maintain 3.5 million jobs. The question before my colleagues is this: Will we act together to reinvigorate our economy, turn the tide on this recession, and create those 3.5 million jobs, or will we say no? When we cast our vote today, we are not choosing between the bill we personally would have written and the bill before us. The choice before us today is between the bill we have before us and doing nothing. And we simply cannot afford to do nothing. The recession is the most pressing threat to our national security. I have spoken often on the floor over the past several weeks about the alarming job losses that continue to escalate each day. That alone should be enough to convince my fellow Senators we must act. Yesterday, we heard a new argument for action. President Obama's top intelligence advisor, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, told us yesterday that the deteriorating global economy is now the greatest threat to America's national security--a security threat more grave even than terrorism.”