"Simply devising a strategy to reduce corporate taxes and increase corporate profits and CEO salaries is no guarantee that the average working family in America will feel this growth."
"I hope you will translate your thinking in economic growth in that area."
"I want to work with you to make sure the reinvestment takes place."
"I want you to come to the programs that you are proposing are going to be cut."
"The problem with many of our Federal programs is not that they're too expensive or too underfunded, the real problem is they don't work, they fail the very people they are meant to help."
"I'll tell you what it does achieve, it's a dramatic cutback in research."
"Do you think that's a responsible thing to do in terms of the healthcare of all the people living in America?"
"Let me tell you another situation, which I'm sure you're aware of. As you go into the poorest places on Earth, what you find sadly is a gross mistreatment of little girls and women."
"And so a fellow by the name of George McGovern, who used to sit in this body and was a great leader in our nation before he passed, came up with an idea."
"What's the difference in the poorest places in the world between an educated and an uneducated little girl? I can tell you what it is."
"And so what did your budget decide to do to this McGovern-Dole school feeding program? You eliminated it."
"robust funding for the International Affairs Budget and calling proposed cuts shortsighted, counterproductive, and even dangerous."