Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this is a cute way to avoid the Budget Act and appear as if we are throwing money at education and saying the children need education dollars. The fact is, if we look at President Clinton's own budget, we see that in 1996 the total amount of funding that there is available for education, training, and employment and social services is about $39 billion, and it goes up in his budget substantially over the years to almost where it peaks at about $46 billion, and then by his own figures it starts to go down substantially in his plan to balance the budget. Now, the President has said of course he wants to balance the budget. Ironically, his cuts do not really ever get anywhere until after the next term of office. I would not have any idea why that is, but we would assume that again it is typical liberal mentality and that we will worry about the real problems manana; not this term, or even the next term of course, but the term after. That shows though that even he talks about the need to cut back. That is not in keeping with the sentiment of this particular amendment, which throws money that we do not have at education. Where does it really go? Does it go to the child? No, of course it does not go to the child.”