Political Quotes

“if we are going to spend $3 trillion, I would think we would get more than 21,000 jobs out of it. And of the 21,000 jobs that were created last month, not the 200,000, unknown, but it is right there in the statistics, of the 21,000 jobs, 20,000 of those jobs were government jobs. So in the private sector of the United States only created 1,000 jobs last month. Jay Leno had a funny joke and I must repeat it. He says, ``You know why President Bush is in such trouble? He is overseeing more gay marriages than he has jobs created in the United States.'' And it captures pretty much what is going on. We have a jobless economy and an endless occupation in Iraq. It has resulted in the fact that the American people are calling for a new direction and change in our priorities. And these budgets reflect the problem we have here at home because of what people are seeing is that our future is being promised to Iraq, and the people of Iraq, and that the same commitment is not being held here at home. The American people have been very generous. They will continue to be generous, but not at the expense of their future and their children's future. I would like to turn to health care, since we have done job training and education. In the area of health care, as I mentioned just the other day, Secretary Thompson visited Iraq opening hospitals. In Iraq, 52 hospitals have been renovated. Three million children under the age of 5 have been vaccinated in Iraq.”