Political Quotes

“I rise to speak about the Santorum-Durbin global AIDS amendment, which addresses the deadliest epidemic in modern times. The amendment before us presents a simple choice: fighting AIDS, or funding cost overruns. Providing lifesaving treatment for tens of thousands of the most vulnerable people in the world, or allocating scarce funds for excess, and perhaps questionable, reconstruction costs in Iraq. A number of my colleagues and I have argued on the floor of this Chamber that budgets are moral documents, that budgets are about choices. If budgets are moral documents, then appropriations bills are where our moral principles are put into practice. Appropriations bills are where we decide, line by line, where the people's money will be spent. The choice before us is simple: we cannot place cost overruns ahead of lifesaving treatment. AIDS is the deadliest pandemic of our times, killing 3 million people every year. That is one person ever 10 seconds. AIDS kills individuals, impoverishes families, orphans children, imperils economics, destabilizes societies, and steals hope. This disease can undermine the stability and economies of nations, to such a degree that the CIA has called HIV/AIDS a threat to our national security. Dr.…”