Political Quotes

“I wish to join in the comments from my able and learned colleague from South Dakota to talk about what happened when the President yesterday released his budget for the next fiscal year. I agree with my colleague from South Dakota that the President's spending is absolutely astonishing. The President wants to spend $4 trillion in 2016. That is $1 billion 4,000 times. Nobody has ever seen a budget that big before. The New York Times ran an article right after the budget came out yesterday with the headline ``Liberal aspirations, set out as a budget.'' The article said: President Obama presented a budget on Monday that is more utopian vision than pragmatic blueprint. The American people don't want a utopian vision. They want responsible leadership--responsible leadership that understands their needs and the challenges people face every day. So far this year, all we have seen from the President is a list of ways he wants to spend taxpayers' hard-earned dollars. These ideas are so unrealistic, there has been no sign that the President actually wants to get anything done for the rest of his term. If the President wanted to get something done, what he would do is write a budget that spends a reasonable amount of money in a responsible way. If he wanted to get something done, he would offer responsible tax simplification. Instead, the President of the United States asked for more taxes on hard-working American families.…”