Political Quotes

“In the 2000 Presidential election, President Bush declared that he was against nation building. Who knew it was America he was talking about? President Kennedy used to say, to govern is to choose, and how we make our choices in this budget is a reflection of our values and the choices we want to make for the American people. It is not just a set of numbers; it is a set of priorities, a set of values, a set of principles. I put together an analysis of what the President has done here in America with his budget and what he is doing in Iraq with the American taxpayers' money. Take job training, for instance. In the United States, although we have cut $316 million in vocational education, in Iraq, $60 million for demobilizing and job training for 130,000 enemy combatants. Funding is $353 million for American enterprise fund and job training. $151 million has been cut in adult training here in the United States. Those are values; those are priorities. Take the area of college education. Here in the United States we have cut $101 million in the President's budget for Perkins loans; $327 million has been cut in Pell grants for college education. In Iraq, $20 million for higher education and development projects creating U.S.- Iraqi university partnerships.”