Political Quotes

“I am so pleased the Presiding Officer is the junior Senator from the State of Virginia. I don't believe there is a Senator during these last 9 months who has added more structure to the Iraq debate than the Senator from Virginia. I say that because today I received a call from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mr. Nussle, who said: I am going to send you the rest of the supplemental appropriations bill for the war in Iraq. I said: Thank you very much. We are now being asked to appropriate another $200 billion for 2008 for the war in Iraq. Another $200 billion. That is $200 billion on top of the $450 billion in the Defense appropriations bill. That is $650 billion--none of it paid for. The entire war in Iraq has been paid for with borrowed money. We are borrowing money from China, India, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Mexico to finance this war. When we sent a bipartisan--and I mean bipartisan--children's health care bill to the President, it was paid for.”