Political Quotes

“our budget plan will help America do better. We have passed the first balanced budget in a generation. While the President vetoed our balanced budget, we have changed Washington forever. The debate is no longer about whether we need a balanced budget, it is about the best way to achieve one. We fought for one, the single largest reduction in spending since World War II, a savings to taxpayers of $43 billion. This budget will help seniors, working families, and children. We end nearly decades of reckless deficit spending. We stop forcing our children to pay our bills. As Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says, a balanced budget would enable families to look forward to their children doing better than they did, to give States the freedom to develop welfare programs that promote personal responsibility and break the cycle of welfare dependency. It restores the authority, Mr. Chairman, and responsibility for pubic education back where it belongs, in the hands of parents, principals, and local school boards, not with the growing Federal bureaucracy. It allows decisionmakers in the States, not Washington bureaucrats, to design Medicaid programs that are tailored to meet the special needs of the poor and elderly. This budget helps families move ahead through a $500 per child family tax credit, a special $5,000 adoption credit, a rollback of the Clinton tax hike. American families will get to keep more of what they earned.”