Political Quotes

“Mr. President, while we are issuing compliments, I want to say that all of us want to see to it that Medicare is here for future generations. That will take sound judgment. We have a select committee that is working on, hopefully, the first step to make that happen. I congratulate the senior Senator from Tennessee for this. More than anybody else recently, I think he has pointed out that in this country, as we leave mandatory spending on autopilot, and as we move to a place where these programs are insolvent and not there for future generations, what we are doing is eating our seed corn. The fact is, our senior Senator from Tennessee knows full well what it takes to make a strong country. He sits on an appropriations committee and understands that many of the basic sciences and other types of efforts that are underway with the Federal Government are the very things that will make our country stronger. Yet what we are doing in this country by leaving mandatory spending on autopilot at the rate at which it is growing is causing us to eat into those things that make our country strong. I thank him for his leadership in that regard. As the Governor of Tennessee, he led our State in making it stronger by making the kinds of priority investments that made us stronger. He alluded to that earlier--what he did in making sure investments in our State created higher wages.…”