Political Quotes

“I will wrap up here with a few thoughts before we vote. I spent a good deal of time today delineating a series of serious, deep problems with this nomination, why I truly believe he should not be confirmed. I suppose maybe there are votes to confirm him. We will see as that goes forward. I do not see any need to delay any further, but it is time for the American people and the Members of this Senate to consider where we are with this nomination. On February 13 of 2011, a day before the President submitted the budget, the budget Jack Lew wrote, he went on CNN and other TV stations and said these words, words that will live in infamy if we care anything in this body about respectful treatment from the executive branch, if we have any commitment to the plain truth. He said: Our budget will get us, over the next several years, to the point where we can look the American people in the eye and say we're not adding to the debt anymore; we're spending money that we have each year, and then we can work on bringing down our national debt. How unbelievable a statement could that be, since his own numbers-- not somebody else's, his own numbers when he submitted the budget on Monday, the next day--showed that the lowest single deficit in any one of the 10 years was $600 billion. He would have added $13 trillion to the gross debt of the United States over 10 years and the numbers, the deficits were going up in the last 5 years--a totally unsustainable course.…”