Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend, Mr. Johnson, for this Special Order, talking, unfortunately, about the things that make us sad to see happening in our country. Here, before, they were talking about the climate crisis. We sure do have a climate crisis. We have a climate of unbridled spending happening in this country without any eye toward the consequences. Of course, we have a border crisis. We have a law-and-order crisis going on. We have a leadership crisis in this country. We are ceding the leadership of the United States of America to thugs in Russia, China, and Iran. We have a political crisis, where everything is politicized, where we can't even get together on things we agree with because the other side forces you to take votes that potentially destroy the fabric of our country, our neighborhoods. The things that we agree on, we can't even do that here because there has to be a political price to pay for everything. Of course, the financial crisis--inflation is here, and it is here to stay. In May, consumer prices spiked 5 percent from the previous year. That is the biggest spike since August 2008. Remember that? The beginning of the Great Recession? We don't have to be doing this, but I think we are going to do it again. Overall, prices jumped at a shocking 9.7 percent annualized rate from March through May. That is 10 percent. Oh, by the way, that coincides with the time that the Biden fiscal policies started coming into play.…”