Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator. Here is the issue: To those who are a slave to these sequestration caps, to those who believe sequestration and this budget practice we are involved with is going to save the country, boy, I couldn't disagree with you more. We haven't moved the debt needle at all. Discretionary spending is not the reason we are in debt. We are spending at a 2008 level. So these blind, across-the-board cuts limited to discretionary spending and a lot of programs that are not even subject to sequestration are not moving the debt needle; they are destroying the ability to defend this country. The theory we are advocating here today is that there is an emergency in the U.S. military that needs to be addressed and we should be able to add money to the U.S. military, the Department of Defense, based on an emergency that is real and not be limited by caps that are insane. Here is the issue: Is there an emergency in terms of readiness? Is there an emergency in terms of operations and maintenance? Are we putting the ability to modernize our force at risk in an emergency situation because we don't have enough money to fight the wars we are in and modernize the force for the wars to come?…”