Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, I sit here listening to this, and a lot of the American people do too. My good friend from Massachusetts has said things that I know he actually believes. He actually believes it. Here we are with the President of the United States, who has given us, over the objections of the gentleman, my friend from Massachusetts, the best economy we have had maybe in my lifetime. You could argue that. He has been able to do this two ways. One was a way that was designed first by a Democrat--by John Kennedy--when he said that the best way to increase revenue is to reduce marginal rates, and it worked. Unfortunately, President Kennedy died after that. Then we have the judges right now; we have, right now, over 170 judges. The unique thing about this is that these are judges who are really constitutional judges. They have read the Constitution. That is a unique notion. Then the military--again, it is hard to sit here and listen to someone who has that level--you hear so much hatred about this President, but he is getting so many great things done. If you look at the military, not many people know this--now, I chair the Armed Services Committee--but we know that during the Obama administration, during the last 5 years--this would have been from 2010 to 2015--he reduced the budget for the military by 25 percent in constant dollars. That has never happened before, even after World War I and World War II when reductions took place.…”