Political Quotes

“I adopt everything that has been said about the debt of this country. We are going broke, if anybody looks at it, but I want to say one thing here this morning. This is a sad day. My colleagues can hide a lot of things around theories of job creation and so forth, but there is one thing they cannot hide today, and that is we are borrowing money after we sent young men and women in uniform to die in Iraq. We buried one in west Tennessee last week, and my colleagues cannot deny the fact that what is going on here this morning is shameful. They are borrowing money to give a tax cut to people like me, to give the bill to the kids that died in Vietnam and Cambodia and everywhere else over there, but today in Iraq and Afghanistan they are doing it. They are borrowing the money and giving them a bill and they have got to pay interest on it. There is no honor in that. No President and no Congress since the war of 1812 has sent people into war and then tried in no way to pay for it, no way, and what they are doing is there is no honor here this morning. This room reeks with the stain of what we are doing.”