Political Quotes

“I am very pleased to join with the members of the CBC and other Members of the House in supporting the budget that best represents the way in which the resources of this country ought to be spent. We are in a range of deficit neutrality on the various plans. They are all very close. The question then is, within that range, how best do we spend the money? The Congressional Black Caucus budget comes closer than any other to dealing with the most significant problems America faces today. We are still in a period of cultural lag. We are still in a period in which we are focused on an external danger, even though it has greatly diminished. That is an understandable cultural lag. From at least 1940 until almost 1990, for a period of about 50 years, this country was, in fact, threatened by outside forces that had no respect for basic human values and sufficient power to destroy our way of life. There is no question. First the Nazis and then the Communists. Therefore, for 50 years, the single greatest focus of American policy at the national level was national defense. Now, however, we are in a qualitatively different world.”