John Kerry: “I was entertained listening to my friend from Texas, who makes some pretty broad statements about who is for what and…”

“I was entertained listening to my friend from Texas, who makes some pretty broad statements about who is for what and who supports what. I think I heard him just say Democrats don't really want to give the money back but the Republicans do. Maybe he wishes that were the fact, and sometimes the wish is the father to the fact, but not in this case. As far as I know, Democrats are wholeheartedly in favor of a fairness that has escaped every single proposal that the Senator from Texas has ever brought to the floor with respect to taxes. There isn't one tax proposal that has passed the U.S. Senate in the 14 years I have been here that wasn't proposed on the Republican side of the aisle that wasn't made fairer by the efforts of Democrats on this side of the aisle. There isn't one tax proposal that the Senator from Texas and others have brought to the floor--not one--that wasn't geared to the upper-income level of people in this country, and usually at the expense of the low-income level of people. My friend from Texas may wish it were otherwise, but the fact is that the distinction is not whether or not we want to give money back, the distinction is whom we want to give it back to and whom they want to give it to in the first place.”