Political Quotes

“the purpose of this evening, because this administration has two books, two sets of values, two priorities, and two budgets, one for Iraq and one for the United States. And the American people, with 43 million Americans without health care, 2.7 million additional Americans without jobs, 9 million Americans without jobs, close to 12 million Americans now living below the poverty line, are being told on a repeated basis that they do not have the money for schools, for police, for health care clinics. Do my colleagues know in the United States that every year the President's budget cuts, cuts health care clinics and community health care services to the United States to the tune of $600 million to $700 million a year? Yet in Iraq, and we will get to the statistic later, in Iraq since the end of the war, 52 new hospitals and clinics have been opened up, 5 million children have been given vaccines. In the United States, cuts in health care services to the tune of $600 million a year, in the President's own budget. He has a vision, a focus, and an agenda for Iraq not matched or paralleled or equal to the vision for the United States. The United States people are very generous.”