Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Senator from Vermont and I don't agree on every issue. We represent very different States, come from very different political backgrounds. While I don't agree with everything he just said and while I am disappointed by his objection to my effort to pass the PRICE Act, which I regard as necessary to help keep inflation under control, I want to echo and applaud so much of what my colleague from Vermont just finished saying. I don't think it is appropriate, when we have people throughout the country struggling just to get by and we have people in Utah shelling out an additional $881 a month--every month--not for luxury items, not for some wish-list item, but for their basic household monthly expenses, every single month because of excessive runaway spending in Washington leading to that inflation. Especially in that circumstance, I can't fathom why we would want to turn now and devote $75 to $76 billion to what my colleague from Vermont appropriately described as corporate welfare. This is industrial policy, which--unlike the Senator from Vermont, I don't like industrial policy--but I completely agree with my colleague from Vermont. This goes beyond even that. This is corporate welfare. There is an editorial in today's copy of the Wall Street Journal by the editorial board. It makes some excellent points, which I would like to excerpt and present to the Senate today.…”