Political Quotes

“we have finally ended this government shutdown that was produced and directed by the Democrats in the Senate. The reason Democrats decided to take this extreme step and shut down the government was because of the narrow issue of illegal immigration. They shut down services for citizens of the United States to provide services for people who are not citizens of the United States, and the Democrats have admitted it was all about this issue of illegal immigration. There may have been another reason, as well, that Democrats wanted to shut down the government, and that was so they could change the subject being debated by people, talked about by friends, noticed by Americans, and making the headlines. That subject, of course, is the competence and optimism in the American economy--by workers, by people who are paying taxes, by people who realize how the Republican tax relief legislation is going to help improve their lives personally. I think the success of the Republican tax relief bill scares a lot of Democrats. It scares them because every one of them voted against it. They didn't think it was a good idea to let people keep more of their hard-earned money. The Democrats thought it was a better idea for possibly the government to keep that money and use it and spend it in ways many people--certainly in Wyoming--feel is not a good use of that money. Families know how to get more value out of their dollars than the government ever will.…”