Political Quotes

“I am concerned about the rule. I know that most Americans want to see us do everything possible to support our troops in the field and in harm's way, but there is $20 billion in this request that is full of fat and pork and is intended to construct, not reconstruct, infrastructure in Iraq. I take the position, Mr. Chairman, that Americans have paid with the blood of young American soldiers. And the people who are going to benefit from this $20 billion largess are going to be the Iraqis, not Americans. Somebody has to borrow this money. Do my colleagues not think it ought to be the people who benefit from the proceeds of the loan? We are borrowing $20 billion, some of which comes from China. We had a $400 billion deficit this year. That is $16 billion in additional mandatory spending next year and every year thereafter on interest. This leadership in Washington, D.C. is spending more money than has ever been spent before in the history of the country. They are not spending it today, they are spending it tomorrow, and it is called interest and it is going to wreck our economy and wreck this country's future.”