Political Quotes

“Remember, Congressman Ryan, when he came up with one of these budgets, used these overseas contingency funds to balance his budget. Let's not even worry about that for purposes of this conversation, the overseas contingency fund. Let's just talk about the war in Afghanistan. What my friend is saying is that it is OK to borrow money for the war in Afghanistan but not to use that same money to reduce pains being felt all over America today. Even Joe Scarborough on ``Morning Joe,'' a former Republican Congressman from Florida, said today that he can't believe that the pain is being felt all over America today and no one is concerned about the war in Afghanistan. Does anyone think we are going to be fighting a war in Afghanistan 5 years from now, 10 years from now? That is the money people are trying to protect. I hope not. For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope we are not still fighting in Afghanistan 5 or 10 years from now. We are asking to take a few dollars of the $650 billion that is there--billion dollars--to relieve the pain we are feeling now for 5 months. That is it. I think it is really unfair that it would be so easy to turn the sequester around and allow us to do something for a long term to take care of this issue, but, no, the Republicans like the pain. One Republican Senator who came here last night said: Well, why don't we take the money from the construction fund for airports? Those create jobs.…”