Political Quotes

“we are on the verge of considering $87 billion to be spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the second payment on top of the first $70 billion that was requested by the administration, and Secretary Powell the other day noted this is a down payment for an additional request to come 6 months from now. Back in April, I introduced a bill called the American Parity Act, which said whatever we invested in Iraq's health care, their education, their infrastructure, their armed forces, we ought to do here at home. Today, I am proud to announce we have 102 sponsors; but in his recent request, there is $6 billion for the Iraqi electric grid, and what does America get? They get the blackout. Not a single dollar invested in America's electric grid. Iraq is being pledged, and thought of, $4 billion for water purification, a wetlands restoration project for Iraq, we finally found an environmental policy the administration can support, and all types of water projects in Iraq. Yet in the Great Lakes, where 40 million Americans get their daily drinking water, there is not a single dollar dedicated to deal with the drinking water in the recent environmental degradation of the Great Lakes along New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Indiana.”