Political Quotes

“every time I hear discussion about how we balance the budget, especially coming from the other side of the aisle--maybe because I have been here long enough--I remember the last time we did balance the budget during President Clinton's term. We balanced the budget. We created an amazing surplus. We created millions and millions of new jobs. But you know what. Not a single Republican voted for that. It passed in the Senate only because the Vice President of the United States cast the deciding vote. No Republican voted--we actually had to do more than just have a bumper sticker ``Let's Balance the Budget.'' We actually did balance the budget, which required some very tough choices. No Republican voted for that. In fact, they all condemned it saying: This would bring about wrack and ruin, and on and on. It did not. It created an enormous budget surplus and created 22 million new jobs. We were paying down the national debt. We left a very large surplus to President Clinton's successor, President Bush, who immediately wasted it on a needless war in Iraq and tax cuts, both of which I voted against. It is also interesting to be lectured by the other side of the aisle about balancing the budget when they voted to go into two of the longest wars in our history, and for the first time in our history voted to pay for them by borrowing the money.…”