Political Quotes

“I want to again remind us of one of the headlines here. Training of health care professionals, 2,200 Iraqi doctors and nurses will get free training, $278 million cut in the United States' budget in this area. We will go on to the next chart of the area of security and justice and investment in what we call safety of our streets versus what we are doing in Iraq. In that area we basically have, I think, an interesting, very interesting set of priorities. And again, it is a tale of two budgets, two values, two priorities. In Iraq, we have placed 150,000 police and security personnel on the street. I do not know if you know this and it may come as a surprise to everybody. But in New York City, there are 3,000 less police on the street since 9-11, because the President's budget we have cut a billion dollars in the police program to keep police doing community policing in the United States. Three thousand less police on the streets of New York since 9-11. That is a fascinating way to execute a high school strategy. Yet, in Iraq, 150,000 police and security personnel.”