Political Quotes

“I want to compliment him for a special order that is designed to let people know precisely what the facts are in regard to our program, but let me, if I could, take a second to suggest that, of course, we have the courage to do this and this has been very difficult. I remind the gentleman that in 1982 Ronald Reagan tried to deal with reforming entitlement programs and Republicans got crushed at the polls in 1982 and in 1986 we lost the U.S. Senate, Republicans did, because one other time they tried to reform entitlements. So we knew that trying to do something to put the good of the country first and politics second would mean that we would catch some heat. But we are willing to do it. And we are willing to do it for a couple of reasons. One is obviously the children, and I am sure that the gentleman has talked about our commitment and the difficulty that our children will face. We do not want to give them a world where they work longer and harder to pay for the bills that we are ringing up and create marginal tax rates that approach 84 percent. I mean, the country will not survive at that rate. I think that we owe our children, we owe the next generation, we owe the pioneers of the next millennium an opportunity to have an America that gives that a chance and gives them hope, allows them to live their dreams.”