Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as my colleagues know, I come to the floor each week to deliver a ``waste of the week'' speech. My concern over excessive government spending and spending on nonessential programs in wasteful ways needs to be shared with the American people, and my colleagues need to know that a lot of hard-earned tax dollars are wasted through waste, fraud, and abuse. Some of these have been very serious, resulting in literally billions of dollars of waste. Some have been smaller expenditures but ludicrous expenditures, the kinds of expenditures where people say why in the world does the Federal Government have to do that? Or why--where's the common sense here? The American people work very hard to earn the dollars they send to Washington. A lot of them are scraping by to pay the mortgage that's due at the end of the month, to pay the rent that is due at the end of the week, to get the groceries in the house or the savings to put in the savings account for an education; any number of ways the American people today, as the statistics are showing us today, have less spending money. The average American worker today has up to $3,000-plus less per year in earnings than they did at the beginning of this administration. I don't know how the President keeps going on the airwaves saying things are just great and look how much better we are doing when people are earning on an average $3,000 less than they earned 8 years after the President first took office.…”