Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my colleague on the Rules Committee, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern). Mr. McGOVERN. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me, and I want to associate myself with her remarks. Mr. Speaker, my Republican friends talk about fiscal responsibility, and they talk about how we need to focus on the economy. Let's review the record here. George Bush inherited from Bill Clinton a sound economy and a surplus. The Republicans came in. They basically eliminated the surplus, and they drove this economy into a ditch. What President Obama inherited was the worst economy since the Great Depression. That is what they did. My friend from North Carolina wants to talk about arrogance. What about the arrogance of creating this enormous debt, of taking this surplus that they've inherited and just frittering it away and creating an all-time high, historic national debt? Where is the arrogance of that? Tax cuts for rich people that weren't paid for. That went onto our debt. Two wars we are fighting. None of it paid for and trillions of dollars onto our debt. When they were voting for all of this stuff, there was no mention of the implications to average families. A prescription drug bill not paid for. Hundreds of billions of dollars added to our debt. Do you want to talk about arrogance? That's arrogance. That's what they gave us. They gave us the worst economy since the Great Depression.…”