Political Quotes

“I think it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who said that paying taxes, after all, was the price we pay for living in a civilized society. Some on the other side are trying to convince the American people that they can have a free lunch, that we can educate our children, provide for our seniors, deal with the critical needs facing our nation, but we do not have to pay for it. The reality is that we do have to pay and we will pay one way or the other. The choices that we make provide for us the opportunity to reap the reward, if we make the right choice, or to suffer the consequences, if we make the wrong choice. They are trying to appeal to the what they, I guess, consider the selfish greed of Americans who want to hold onto their dollars. This group of cowboys that are here now, this wagon train of theirs is one that disposes of the young and the old and the disabled in hopes that somehow they can have a more fruitful and more purposeful life. That is not true, and we are going to find out again that we cannot have a free lunch in this country.”