"The 1993 budget passed with no Republican votes in the House, no Republican votes in the Senate."
"Every Republican since Nixon has left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited without exception."
"Every Democratic presidential administration has left office with a better deficit situation as a percentage of GDP than they inherited."
"Those surpluses were taken by the next administration, a Republican administration, to provide tax cuts to the very, very wealthy on the faulty theory that trickled down would help grow the economy, a..."
"They contributed to the debt and therefore have a moral responsibility to raise the debt ceiling to help the American economy."
"A default on American debt would not only destroy the American economy with high recession, lost household savings, lost retirement savings, but it would drag the entirety of the world economy down wi..."
"As has been said here by many, the best way to grow an economy is to invest in it."
"The past five recessions started under Republican administrations."
"The proposed Biden budget of $6.9 trillion is about 29 percent of the U.S. economy."
"The United States and Canada have a unique and special relationship."
"We need each other. We have all kinds of examples of that in Buffalo and Western New York."