Political Quotes

“There is something we cannot run away from. Two weeks ago today this body, in mostly a party-line vote, voted to raise the debt limit by $750 billion. Now that is a thousand time a thousand time a thousand times 750. ... In order to give truly very, very wealthy families a tax break, you are sticking my kids with the bill. It is that simple. Because not only do we owe this money and not only have you run up the debt by $363 billion in the past 12 months, guys, you control the House, you control the Senate, you control the tax bill, and you control the spending bill. That is how much debt you have run up in 1 year, and you are sticking my kids with the bills. And until they pay off that bill, they are going to squander a billion dollars a day on interest, and your answer to all of this is to stick them with more bills. That is not fiscal responsibility.”