Jim Cooper Quotes & Sayings

“Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.”

“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 Clinton era.”

“Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.”

“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 - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?”

“If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.”

“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 3 years.”

“It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.”

“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 putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.”

“Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.”

“Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.”