Political Quotes

“I am watching you go through this, and I wanted to come down and take part. Last night we did the budget for next year. Democrats consistently, all day and all night, offered amendments to try to correct this idea of there not being any shared sacrifice. So as we sift through, we go through the budget line item by line item, and there are millions being cut, if not billions being cut, from Head Start, early childhood programs, the Pell Grant, veterans health, all of these things that get reinvested back into our people, and the RAND Corporation and all of these studies that are done, for every dollar we invest in early childhood, we get about $17 back into society. For ever $1 we invest in Head Start, we get $7 to $9 back. And all of our friends on the other side who say we ought to run government like a business should look at some of these statistics. These are critical investments that we need to make in the United States if we are going to be competitive. We have only 300-plus million people in the United States. We are now competing against 1.3 billion in China. We are now competing against over 1 billion people in India. So we have to have all 300 million of our people on the field playing for the United States of America. {time} 1610 And you know what? That means we've got to invest in their health care to make sure those kids are healthy. We've got to make sure that they're educated.…”