Political Quotes

“we now find out that a top CIA agent has been paid $1.5 million over the last 2 years for spying on the United States on behalf of Russia. Leslie Gelb, chief foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times who now works at the State Department, wrote a column a couple of years ago that the combined Western aid to the States of the former Soviet Union had totaled $50 to $60 billion over the last couple of years. Last year this body voted, I voted against it and many others did, but we voted to increase the appropriation for the World Bank by $12 billion for aid to Russia. Some estimates are that we have spent over $100 billion in aid in recent years to the States of the former Soviet Union. Now what are they doing? They are spitting in our face. They are spying on us. We need to cut this aid off. We have too many problems here at home that need to be taken care of first. We are broke. We are $4.3 trillion in debt, and losing billions each week. We need to take care of our problems here at home first and stop sending so many billions and billions of dollars overseas, and particularly to countries that are spying on us and slapping us in the face every day.”