Political Quotes

“I rise today to talk about the fiscal cliff this country is facing and is coming upon us on January 1. As my colleagues have been pointing out, Congress must act soon to take on the numerous expiring tax provisions in the sequester. I believe President Obama needs to supply the leadership in those efforts. If he does not, we know taxes are going to go up on all Americans; we know the economy is going to be thrown back into a recession; and we know unemployment will return to even higher rates than we have right now. Our recovery from the last recession has been far too sluggish. We see that all across the country. It has left too many Americans still out of work. Today our economy has created 9 million fewer jobs than we were promised under the President's own stimulus plan. Our economy has rebounded far more slowly than it did following previous recessions. As a nation we simply cannot afford another recession right now. It would be especially tragic if there were a recession caused by a failure of leadership coming out of the White House. That is what we are trying to avoid, and we have a very limited amount of time to do it. As chairman of the Republican policy committee, we have come out with a policy paper called ``On the Fiscal Cliff, Entitlement Reform Is Key'' because what we see is that no amount of tax revenue will fix entitlement spending when we look at the history of the United States.…”