"What we are effectively doing, I say this……" — John Spratt
"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 tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt."
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18 Quotes by John Spratt
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This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our…
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Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this…
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
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We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of…
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we…
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing…
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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a…
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As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have…
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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon…
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I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact…
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Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a…
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding…
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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
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