Political Quotes

“I agree with his proposition and would have supported it if it had been part of the bill in previous years. We do know that one of the most disgraceful things in the Congress of the United States is these special loopholes for wealthy people and wealthy corporations in America. I say to my colleagues: 'Here is the opportunity, if you trust the President, to carry out the stoppage of special loophole provisions. We can give him that authority.' Now let me suggest that we are about--and I know the majority side with the minority have been working on welfare reform--this is an issue of corporate welfare, of rich persons welfare. As my colleagues know, we can identify a lot of things in this country that the average citizen can learn to hate, but it is a type of corporate welfare with special tax provisions with the very wealthy corporations and individuals of this country that really cause a great portion of the deficit that we are all into the burden of today.”