Political Quotes

“Here we go again. I mean, let's play some more pretend. Look, it's 3:30 in the morning, America is watching. This is why they have a 9 percent favorable rating of us. The fact of the matter is, this whole budget is pretend. It pretends that our current statute, under the Budget Control Act, isn't at a billions of dollars lower level. So the committee pretended and said, we are going to pretend that the statute is something else, and we are going to spend all this money, including over $500 million more for AIDS. Laudable. It is pretend though. So what does this amendment do? It just pretends a little more. It pretends that we can take that $5 million because, Madam Chair, this comes from that same fund. This is the Secretary's management fund. We are up to $27 million we have taken in just 2\1/2\ short hours. This isn't a bottomless well. I get it. We want to make a point that--and look, congratulations to the President. The President's State of the Union address, standing right on that podium, said that we have to have a struggle and a fight to end HIV/AIDS. But you don't do it by taking the money from the Secretary's management fund, now up to $27 million in just 2\1/2\ short hours. Find it somewhere else. If this is so important, find it somewhere else. Don't play pretend. We are not going to fool the American people. When they make a budget decision today, they choose to do something that they think is important.…”