Political Quotes

“Let's talk about some other projects. I know the good gentleman from Idaho talked about we are reducing spending, we continue to reduce spending, and we try to do that. Mr. Chairman, we are going broke saving money around this town. We keep on talking about reducing spending, but somehow--I don't know how it is--when I watch that clock one of my colleagues wears on his lapel, the numbers on the national debt clock continue to get larger. I showed the national debt clock to my daughter one time, and she said, ``What is that?'' I pulled it up online, and I showed it to her. She stared at it, and she said, Well, it never stops. Mr. Chairman, it doesn't stop. We are going broke saving money. Here are some more projects: $60,000 to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts and content into humanities general education courses at Thomas Edison State University in Trenton, New Jersey; a wonderful place; Over $360,000 for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at the University of Central Oklahoma; $215,000 to California State University for 25 middle and high school English teachers to study climate futurism, which is storytelling that uses climate science as a catalyst to imagine possible climate futures. Now, the President has just asked for a supplemental of over $100 billion for wars in Ukraine, Israel, and to process more illegal migrants across our border. We don't have money for that.…”