John Spratt Quotes

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• This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United…
• Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus…
• We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
• We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight…
• Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by…
• We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the…
• Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have…
• As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S.…
• Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and,…
• I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the…
• Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
• With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse…
• Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds…
• Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.
• And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we…
• We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it…
• The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government,…
• What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the…

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