Jim Cooper Quotes

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• We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So…
• It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or…
• Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the…
• Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
• First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year…
• It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.
• President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.
• The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration…
• This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
• Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in…
• This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step…
• If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than…
• While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than…
• Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the…
• If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
• Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
• We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
• If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
• Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.
• Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets…

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