Political Quotes

“back home, when I am back home in the south side of Chicago, in the south suburbs, I get asked some pretty basic questions by the folks back home. I had a really pretty good one asked to me just this past week. They say, it is our understanding that there is this $2.6 trillion surplus of extra tax revenue. If we have all this extra money in Washington, why does President Clinton, the Clinton-Gore Democrats, propose a $176 billion tax increase, and why do the Clinton-Gore Democrats, why do they propose raiding the Social Security trust fund by $250 billion to spend money on 120 new government programs? That is an important question because on the Republican side, we say we do not need $176 billion in tax increases. We say we do not want to raid the Social Security trust fund. In fact, this year we want to stop something that has been going on for 30 years. We believe it is time to wall off the Social Security trust fund and stop the raids that President Clinton wants to have on Social Security. Let us stop the raids on Social Security. Let us wall off the Social Security trust fund.”