Political Quotes

“this morning we will be voting on a budget resolution written by my Republican colleague Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. This is a budget that would lead to devastating cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and education, while paving the way for even more tax breaks to the top 1 percent and large, profitable corporations. Make no mistake about it: Senator Paul's budget is an immoral budget. It is bad economic policy. While I am confident that this resolution will be defeated in the Senate, let me be very clear. Senator Paul's vision of America--balancing the budget on the backs of working families, the elderly, the sick, the children, and the poor in order to make the richest people in America even richer--is the exact same vision of the Republican Party in the House and the Republican Party in Washington, DC. So let me commend Senator Paul for being honest with the American people in terms of what he believes and for putting down on paper what a majority of Republicans in the House and billionaire campaign contributors like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson believe. And this is what they want. At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, Senator Paul and the Republicans in the House do not believe that it was good enough to provide over $1 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations. The budget that we are debating today would give the wealthy and the powerful an even bigger tax break.…”