Political Quotes

“what is disconcerting is that I think that side of the aisle, I think the Democrats after experiencing success 2 years ago in demagoguing what the Republicans were doing in trying to slow down the growth of the budget, when they realized some success at the polls suggesting that Republicans were taking health care away from the elderly for tax cuts for the rich and taking food out of the mouths of children for tax cuts for the rich, that demagoguery resulted in some Americans believing it. I think most Americans are now realizing that government is growing much faster than it should and the United States Congress, along with the President, is taking more and more money out of those taxpayers' pockets. Let me show the chart of what is happening in spending of the Federal Government in the 10 years from 1994 to 2003. In the first five bars of this chart representing the last 5 years of spending, it is going to be a $7.8 trillion expenditure over those 5 years. The last five bars of the chart representing what is in this budget is $9.1 trillion, going from $7.8 trillion to $9.1 trillion. And just imagine for a moment this budget that we are having grows faster than inflation, yet what we are seeing is the other side of the aisle saying it is not growing fast enough.”