Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, let us think for a moment about what our great Nation can be and then think at the same time about the direction in which we are going. And this legislation, this appropriations bill reflects the fact that we are moving in a very bad direction. The reality is that in our great Nation, we have the capability of providing a decent life for all of our people. The middle class should be expanding, not declining. Poverty should be going down, not increasing. Unemployment should be going down, not up. We should be taking care of the most vulnerable people in our country, the elderly, the sick, the children, not seeing them exposed more and more to the dangers that impact upon their lives. We should be asking the wealthiest people in this country to help make our entire Nation great, not provide trillions of dollars in tax breaks for people who do not need it. That is what the United States of America is about. That is where we should be going, a good life for all of our people, not extraordinary wealth for a few, the decline of the middle class and an increase in poverty.”