These growing deficits and debt threaten our nation's long-term economic security. As deficits climb, we are borrowing more and more money from Japan, China, and even South Korea. That makes us weaker,
More Quotes from Kent Conrad:
I believe President Bush's campaign promises are unraveling, ... He claimed we could afford his massive tax cut, a major defense buildup, more money for education, while paying down the debt and protecting Social Security and Medicare. He was wrong.Kent Conrad
I found him to be extraordinarily intelligent, and he has assured me that he brings no ideological agenda to the Supreme Court. He wants to be a justice for all of the people.
Kent Conrad
The only thing wrong with that statement is, it's not true, ... Of course people's privacy would have been jeopardized under such a provision.
Kent Conrad
In six short months, this administration, after advocating a tax cut that was too large and after putting belief in a 10-year estimate of revenue, have put us in the bad old days of raiding every trust fund in sight,
Kent Conrad
If you are not able to pay down the debt, that means that the federal government is in competition with private-sector borrowers for money, driving up the costs of interest rates and that's a hidden tax on every American family -- higher mortgage payments, higher car payments, higher college loan payments,
Kent Conrad
The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.
Kent Conrad
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Security QuotesHonor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. Mencken
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
William Devane
In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
Mel Smith