Political Quotes

“the gentlewoman from Texas is right. It is the same old song. As the Four Tops would say, ``It's a different verse since you've been gone.'' That is what this budget is. The Republicans have come back, and they have taken their old last year's budget. What it did to seniors, what it did to schoolchildren, and they put a smiley face on it. But it is the same old bad budget. Mr. Speaker, for months they have tried to undermine the Federal commitment to education. On Sunday, the majority leader of the Republican Party even suggested that we compensate for a revenue loss by cutting education. It is as if Marie Antoinette were telling the peasants let them eat cake, but he says to students in America, let them pump gas. We need more opportunities in this country, not less. Is it any wonder that a Republican Party that cannot seem to learn its own lessons wants everyone else in America to pay more for learning.”