Political Quotes

“I think it is pretty offensive that the Vice President is still receiving $3,000 a month from a company which is getting billions of dollars in unbid contracts and he is telling us he has severed ties with that company. I guess I will not say the Vice President lied about it. I am not allowed to say that. I do not quite know how to describe it. But let me move to something else. So we have an administration where the Vice President has done what I just said. We have an administration where the President has said the Medicare bill would cost $400 billion; and I do not want to say the President lied, but then the Medicare bill we find out 7 weeks later cost $530 billion. We find that the President told us one thing about Iraq, I do not want to say he lied, either, but then we find out something else entirely different about Iraq. We hear, and I would mention this, on the front page of a generally pretty conservative newspaper in this city, that the President's people, the administration said just a couple of years ago, way after September 11, we would have 3.4 million more jobs created in 2003 than there were in 2000, yet it turns out we have had 1.7 million jobs fewer. I do not want to say the administration did not tell the truth about that, but their predictions were way, way off. Then the President said, the administration said, the budget deficit would be $14 billion. It has turned into being $521 billion.”