Political Quotes

“it is appropriate on this floor that we all be entitled to our own opinions, but it is not right that we should all be entitled to our own set of facts. The facts are that if this budget passes it will be 5 straight years of the largest deficits in American history. Do you know in the last 5 years we have raised the Federal debt limit four times? It is now over $9 trillion. What does that mean to the average American? It means that every American owes $28,110 of that debt. That means that every child born in America today starts off their life owing $28,110. That is a fact, but it is not fair. And it is not fair that we continue to cut revenue that this country needs to invest in its physical and its human infrastructure. This budget includes another $228 billion of tax cuts that go overwhelmingly to the people who need it the least. And yet, we have got 13 million children in America living in poverty today; we have got over 43 million Americans without any health insurance. And yet look at the priorities in this budget: You reward those who need help the least and ignore those who need help the most. That is not fair. That is not American. That is why this budget shouldn't pass.”