Political Quotes

“yesterday the President received a major blow to his health care plan. The Congressional Budget Office told him and the American people that taxes are taxes, and spending is spending. It does not matter how hard the President tries to hide the truth, he cannot. Mr. Speaker, this is not the loyal opposition telling Mr. Clinton he is wrong. It is the CBO, an arm of the Democratic leadership. It is the President's own allies who are telling him he is not telling the people the truth. It is the President's own allies who are telling him that his health care plan is not going to decrease the deficit, it is going to increase the deficit by $70 billion. The President's numbers are off by $133 billion. In going back, as my colleagues know, to 1965 when we introduced Medicare, at that time we projected that in 1990 it could cost $106 billion. In retrospect when we look back to 1990, we missed that mark by over $100 billion. Mr. Speaker, it is time to call a spade a spade. It is time for the President to admit that his big Government-run health care plan is the largest tax-and-spend entitlement program in the history of America. Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues, "The truth hurts, especially when it comes from your friends."”