Political Quotes

“we have seen all this before. You have seen it on late night television, and ad, the fellow with the Ginzu knives. He brandishes them. He swings them over his head, and whack, an onion is in two. Before you know it, a radish lies in slivers. He can whack anything with those knives, whether it needs whacking or not, and what we have this morning is the Republican equivalent of a Ginzu knife ad. The Older Americans Act, whack; student financial assistance, whack; assistance for education, whack. They keep slicing up the American middle class. Well, we have heard for 40 years from the Republicans about how they could solve all these problems by simply whacking out waste and fraud. If they can do it with whacking the waste and fraud, why do they not do that and stop slicing with their Ginzu knives the American middle class? I have got a program called the Retired Senior Volunteer Program. It has operated for 23 years in Travis County. It provides 2,000 of our citizens opportunities to volunteer. Nobody has ever suggested that it involved one cent of waste or fraud, and yet, they have got their knives out whacking it, terminating it, so that seniors in our community will not have the opportunity to have the coordination they need to give back to the community. Mr. Chairman, it is wrong. It is wrong. Why not use a surgical knife and cut out the waste and the fraud and leave middle-class America alone?”