Political Quotes

“I understand that, but the Pentagon wants it. What is debt reduction compared against the desires of the Pentagon? The gentlewoman must understand what is going to win around here. So I assume we are not going to do that. This, of course, is the account in which the magical increasing missing intelligence pot comes. You remember that. That was the $1 billion that we checked into, and we made it $2 billion. Then our diligent overseers checked into it and it became $4 billion. That is hidden in here. Who knows how much it is? You are saying now that, gee, we cannot afford to take away $6 billion which is what happened when we caught them with money that they were withholding. We let them spend it elsewhere. So the first part is the real cost of this. Second, let us also retitle this bill. This is the foreign aid bill. We spend more in foreign aid in one military budget than we spend in all the so-called foreign aid budgets because, as was noted, Japan and England and Germany and France and Norway and Belgium and all of the other wealthy countries in the world are the beneficiaries of those who vote to kill this amendment because none of them have military budgets as a percentage of their governments, of their gross product like ours. We confer on them this great benefit. Of course, there are bad people in the world. But there are also some good countries in the world that are the potential victims. They understand that they do not have to do things.…”