Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, and would like to extend my congratulations to those members of the CBC that prepared this budget, and say that in the Congressional Black Caucus budget, we have the only budget which clearly refuses to accept the President's doctrine of no further cuts in defense. That is a major blunder, and we should have corrected it in all of the budgets. The American people need to know that we are still spending enormous amounts of money for defense, when it is not needed. We can fund the programs we need to fund in education, we can fund the programs in health care and in job training that we need to fund, and we do not have to raise taxes for anybody. All we have to do is stop spending money on worthless weapons systems. We have to stop funding overseas bases in Germany and Japan, where if they need bases, they can pay for their own bases. We have to stop funding Star Wars and weapons systems that we are never going to use. Defense is where the money is. But we have refused to do that, and thus we do not have the money to spend for education and for job training and for health care that we need. In this budget, the theme that education and employment has been vitally needed in our big cities runs through the entire budget. We have a disaster in most of our big cities. We have an education and employment disaster. We appropriated $8 billion for an earthquake disaster in California recently.…”