Political Quotes

“I want you folks to know that I won't be as eloquent as my friend, and I won't be as long either. You all will be able to get out of here if you are waiting for a break. If you need to get up and go, you go, you are not hurting my feelings one bit. Mr. Speaker, I am absolutely disgusted with the way our government spends money and where it puts its priorities. We spent over $114 billion on Ukraine. Don't get me wrong, Putin is a thug and I wish the Lord would take him out. Russia's GDP is somewhere between that of France and Canada. We have given Afghan refugees over $2,200 a month and we only sent the Maui residents one single $700 payment when they lost everything. Illegal aliens cost the Texas taxpayers somewhere around $850 million. Folks, we are over $33 trillion in debt. Fitch, which is a rating agency, recently downgraded the United States' credit rating because of the general government deficit, which it anticipates will be 6.3 percent of gross domestic product in 2023, when it was only 3.7 percent in 2022. That is a huge jump for 1 year. Folks, that has almost doubled. Another reason they gave was leadership, and that has been over the last 20 years. That cuts both ways. That is both parties. The United States spends approximately $300 billion each month. That is nearly $7 million each minute. It only takes our government 2 hours and 22 minutes to spend a billion dollars if you can imagine that.…”