Political Quotes

“on one of the Sunday shows, the assistant leader, the Republican whip, my friend, the junior Senator from Arizona, indicated that Republicans would not support the withholding tax proposal we had made. On Monday, that was what the Senate leadership said. So I am very happy there has been a conversion and now they agree to support it but be careful. Remember, they are very clever and unclear on how they want this paid for. One Republican Senator said he didn't want it paid for, and that, in fact, has been the standard mantra of the Republicans: Tax cuts should not have to be paid for. The Bush tax cuts, amounting to trillions of dollars, were not paid for. That is, of course, one reason we have this huge problem with the deficit. I think we also have to recognize that one thing our country lacks is confidence. There are a lot of reasons, but one reason the country lacks confidence is people out here are talking about how bad the economy is doing. It is doing very poorly, and I recognize that. But we have had growth over the last many months. Is it as significant and as robust as we want? Of course not, but we have a growing economy; that is to say about my friend, the prior President, President Bush, we had no growth there. That was downhill. When he came into office, there was a surplus of trillions of dollars.…”