John Spratt

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction,…

— John Spratt

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is…

— John Spratt

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for…

— John Spratt

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or…

— John Spratt

We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a…

— John Spratt

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate…

— John Spratt

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year…

— John Spratt

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves…

— John Spratt

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we…

— John Spratt

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was…

— John Spratt

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children…

— John Spratt

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He…

— John Spratt

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

— John Spratt

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course…

— John Spratt

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with…

— John Spratt

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

— John Spratt

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax…

— John Spratt

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

— John Spratt