Political Quotes

“I come to the floor to join my colleague from Indiana and to congratulate him on those remarks, which would be most certainly well received in Wyoming, and reflect the feeling of the people in my State in terms of the reckless tax-and- spending process in which the Democrats are engaged. And I come today to the floor to oppose what the Democrats are trying to do in terms of adding money to the debt, additional spending, a bill that has been described in so many ways. I read it and, to me, it is reckless. It is extreme. It is scary to talk about the sort of things that the Democrats are trying to impose on the American people. When we take a look at what happens with this national debt, the folks on Medicare and on Social Security are concerned they are going to get undermined--those wonderful programs that work for so many people--because of the growing debt. How are we going to address it? Well, the suspension of the debt ceiling expired a month and a half ago. Less than 2 weeks later, Democrats passed a blueprint for the largest spending bill in the history of the United States, over $3.5 trillion. People looked at it and saw how much it is, and they said: Democrats may say it is $3.5 trillion; it is a lot more than that. More than America spent in World War II to win the war? This is in addition to the $2 trillion already spent and added to the debt by this administration on a party-line vote earlier this year. So America's debt is now over $28 trillion.…”