Political Quotes

“I'm amused sometimes when I stand on the floor and I hear my Republican colleagues debate the economy. Frankly, the Bush administration, of course, did not happen, you understand. That 8 years really wasn't their economic program, and the dire consequences of that economic program are all Mr. Obama's fault. Hoover probably could have blamed it on Coolidge. Maybe Coolidge could have blamed it on Harding. Now, we can throw these assumptions back and forth and generalities about this job-stopping Congress and President, but every time I get up and I start talking about the facts, the statistics, I rarely get somebody standing up on your side of the aisle saying, No, that statistic is wrong. Now, I've been here long enough, unfortunately for some of you, to remember where we've been, where we've come, and where we are. I was here in 1993 when we debated the economic program that was put on this floor by the Democratic Congress and President Clinton. And although I don't know--it was one of you who recently spoke or who has spoken on this floor--your leaders said if we adopted that program, it would destroy the economy, the deficit would explode, and unemployment would explode. And as you are today, you are 180 degrees wrong.”