Political Quotes

“So I am still waiting for an answer to the question: Where were these Republicans who were talking about fiscal responsibility and what is fair in terms of transferring costs, when it was the billionaires and the giant corporations who were getting a $2 trillion tax break? Let us remember--because I was here when that happened--even the conservative economists and think tanks were saying this is going to go on the debt balance because it is not paid for. No. At that moment, they were willing to say: But it is going to produce all kinds of wonderful benefits--which, of course, did not come to pass. What about the example I gave, the example about the investment that we made as a country in our returning veterans; the fact that we invested so 2 million of them could get college diplomas, so that millions more could get technical degrees? What about the fact that the numbers show American taxpayers got a return on that investment of 7 to 1? This really is about who we invest in. It seems that what Senator Scott is saying is people shouldn't go to school.…”