Political Quotes

“First of all, the last statement is, of course, totally contradictory from the gentleman from Texas. But when you just want to bash things, you will say anything. You cannot simultaneously say this program is too generous because of its forgiveness and is a predatory loan. The fact is it has very generous forgiveness provisions, which is why it is scored at 84 percent, not 98 percent. So that argument the gentleman just made is, of course, entirely self-contradictory because it can't be both. Secondly, as to agriculture, I did vote for an amendment that would change it, but the gentleman, the spectacle of my Republican colleagues hiding behind Obama is bizarre. You could have done what we have offered, which was to cut the $150 million from going to Brazil and then cut it out of America. But it's not the only item I mentioned. I mentioned the $1.2 billion the gentleman wanted to send to Iraqi security forces, the 400 million to build infrastructure in Kandahar and Kabul, the $250,000 limit the Republicans rejected on individual entities. So, no, there are billions in agriculture and the military. I didn't just mention one item. The gentlemen do understand that they are vulnerable, so they blame Obama. They and Obama are both wrong about sending money to Brazil. But the most important point is this, and I hope in his final time the gentleman from Alabama will address it.”