Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in all of the time I have been in Washington, in both the House and the Senate, I have seen Republicans in control, in the majority, and I have seen Democrats in the majority. I have been on both sides of that, and I have seen Republican Presidents and Democrat Presidents. But one thing that doesn't change is that, when Democrats get power in Washington, they want to expand government, they want to grow government, they want to spend money. If you just look throughout history, at least since the time I have been here, that is just a fact. We have already seen them this year-- since the President came to power and the Democrats have had narrow majorities in the House and Senate, which they have interpreted somehow as being a mandate, but is a dead-even U.S. Senate--push through on a partisan basis a $1.9 trillion spending bill which expanded government. There is a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that has passed the Senate in a bipartisan way, on which there was some agreement, and it is still awaiting action in the House of Representatives. Already--already--in this new administration, that represents over $3 trillion in spending, which is on infrastructure and some core hard infrastructure with respect to the bipartisan bill. The other bill was of a lot of things that the Republicans felt weren't necessary, particularly after the five bills we passed last year in 2020 in response to the pandemic. By the way, every one of those was on a bipartisan basis.…”