Political Quotes

“We heard the Senator from Georgia talk about the upcoming predictable crisis, and our Nation faces an Olympic crisis right now, and it is a predictable crisis. Back in 2006, then-Senator Obama called raising the debt ceiling ``a sign of leadership failure.'' So why 5 years later is it now-President Obama who is asking us to raise the debt ceiling, and why is he doing it with no plan on how to pay back the new debt we continue to accumulate? In his press conference last week, the President called on this party to ``go ahead and make the tough choices.'' When it comes to cutting spending, his allies in Congress refuse to make any choices. The President has attacked this body for not getting a deal done on time. Yet he declined to meet with Republicans about these very issues and about our ideas. According to the White House Press Secretary--the Press Secretary said this was ``not a conversation worthing having.'' Well, he has finally agreed to meet tomorrow with leaders from both parties. The White House and Congress have a choice: Do we want America to be broke or do we want America to be balanced? Facts are stubborn things, and the numbers do not lie. Our debt is swallowing our economy whole. Every day Washington borrows $4.1 billion more--borrowed over $4.1 billion yesterday, $4.1 billion today, and it will borrow $4.1 billion again tomorrow. That is over $2 million a minute, every minute. In a single day, Washington borrows enough to buy tens of thousands of new homes.…”