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By using Social Security trust fund dollars to pay for tax cuts and other government spending, the administration significantly understates the true fiscal imbalance of the country. - Kent Conrad Quotes

By using Social Security trust fund dollars to pay for tax cuts and other government spending, the administration significantly understates the true fiscal imbalance of the country.

While I agree that all emergency personnel should be highly trained, this is simply beyond the scope of what we can do in rural communities. - Kent Conrad Quotes

While I agree that all emergency personnel should be highly trained, this is simply beyond the scope of what we can do in rural communities.

American Politician

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. - Kent Conrad Quotes

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

American Politician Computers

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq. - Kent Conrad Quotes

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

Iraq

Forty-three per cent of the benefit goes to the wealthiest one per cent, those who are making $900,000 a year. There is no fairness in that. - Kent Conrad Quotes

Forty-three per cent of the benefit goes to the wealthiest one per cent, those who are making $900,000 a year. There is no fairness in that.

This nation is about to be hit with a tidal wave of new retirees. In just six years, the baby boomers will begin to retire. The demands on Social Security and Medicare will be dramatically increased, ... This is no time to divert Social Security and Medicare funds to other purposes. - Kent Conrad Quotes

This nation is about to be hit with a tidal wave of new retirees. In just six years, the baby boomers will begin to retire. The demands on Social Security and Medicare will be dramatically increased, ... This is no time to divert Social Security and Medicare funds to other purposes.

This confirms that the Bush economic plan is not working, - Kent Conrad Quotes

This confirms that the Bush economic plan is not working,

You think of what could be done here, ... Any agent of the chairman of the Appropriations Committee -- and they could designate anybody as an agent -- could go into IRS facilities anywhere in the country and get your tax returns. - Kent Conrad Quotes

You think of what could be done here, ... Any agent of the chairman of the Appropriations Committee -- and they could designate anybody as an agent -- could go into IRS facilities anywhere in the country and get your tax returns.

There needs to be recognition by the administration that his budget is not going to get through the Senate because his priorities are not the priorities of the country. - Kent Conrad Quotes

There needs to be recognition by the administration that his budget is not going to get through the Senate because his priorities are not the priorities of the country.

He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spending you say is needed. How do you intend to pay for it? - Kent Conrad Quotes

He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spending you say is needed. How do you intend to pay for it?

I found him to be extraordinarily intelligent, and he has assured me that he brings no ideological agenda to the Supreme Court. He wants to be a justice for all of the people. - Kent Conrad Quotes

I found him to be extraordinarily intelligent, and he has assured me that he brings no ideological agenda to the Supreme Court. He wants to be a justice for all of the people.

My own view is that we ought to protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, then, with what is left, have significant tax cuts. - Kent Conrad Quotes

My own view is that we ought to protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, then, with what is left, have significant tax cuts.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later. - Kent Conrad Quotes

The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster. - Kent Conrad Quotes

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

We have just had a massive disaster, ... This is not a time to be cutting services to the most needy among us. - Kent Conrad Quotes

We have just had a massive disaster, ... This is not a time to be cutting services to the most needy among us.

The fact is, we have worked together effectively as a team for North Dakota, most recently in the fight to save our bases, ... I look forward to continuing to work together to serve the people of our state. - Kent Conrad Quotes

The fact is, we have worked together effectively as a team for North Dakota, most recently in the fight to save our bases, ... I look forward to continuing to work together to serve the people of our state.

This administration is driving us over the cliff into deeper and deeper debt. - Kent Conrad Quotes

This administration is driving us over the cliff into deeper and deeper debt.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary. - Kent Conrad Quotes

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

American Politician

I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some bombshell, which I don't expect, I think he will be confirmed and quite handily. - Kent Conrad Quotes

I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some bombshell, which I don't expect, I think he will be confirmed and quite handily.

You don't just stick with the same old plan when something of this consequence occurs. - Kent Conrad Quotes

You don't just stick with the same old plan when something of this consequence occurs.

This has been a tough year for many of our farmers in North Dakota and across the nation, - Kent Conrad Quotes

This has been a tough year for many of our farmers in North Dakota and across the nation,

It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills, - Kent Conrad Quotes

It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills,

national crisis that requires a national response. - Kent Conrad Quotes

national crisis that requires a national response.

He's highly intelligent. He has strong credentials. He is a conservative, but I think he is mainstream conservative, - Kent Conrad Quotes

He's highly intelligent. He has strong credentials. He is a conservative, but I think he is mainstream conservative,

If you look at his performance, his education, his attainments, that is the kind of person who has the quality to be in the Supreme Court. This man has a mind like a jewel. - Kent Conrad Quotes

If you look at his performance, his education, his attainments, that is the kind of person who has the quality to be in the Supreme Court. This man has a mind like a jewel.

I think he can get from 75 to 80 votes. - Kent Conrad Quotes

I think he can get from 75 to 80 votes.

He has the right kind of demeanor to be a judge. He listens to others and is not dogmatic, - Kent Conrad Quotes

He has the right kind of demeanor to be a judge. He listens to others and is not dogmatic,

This is a fundamental debate about the economic future of our country. - Kent Conrad Quotes

This is a fundamental debate about the economic future of our country.

Today, I came really to talk about job creation, - Kent Conrad Quotes

Today, I came really to talk about job creation,

People are acting like this $5.6 trillion surplus is etched in stone. It's not. It's etched in quicksand. - Kent Conrad Quotes

People are acting like this $5.6 trillion surplus is etched in stone. It's not. It's etched in quicksand.

His tax cut is so big that he leaves no money to pay for a new prescription drug benefit without using the Medicare trust fund, - Kent Conrad Quotes

His tax cut is so big that he leaves no money to pay for a new prescription drug benefit without using the Medicare trust fund,

Money

You can imagine the pressure that's on him, the things that are being suggested to him. - Kent Conrad Quotes

You can imagine the pressure that's on him, the things that are being suggested to him.

These growing deficits and debt threaten our nation's long-term economic security. As deficits climb, we are borrowing more and more money from Japan, China, and even South Korea. That makes us weaker, - Kent Conrad Quotes

These growing deficits and debt threaten our nation's long-term economic security. As deficits climb, we are borrowing more and more money from Japan, China, and even South Korea. That makes us weaker,

Who would have thought that when we began this week, we would have ended in this way? - Kent Conrad Quotes

Who would have thought that when we began this week, we would have ended in this way?

Democratic amendments led to a package with a smaller tax cut, far more resources for paying down the debt and strengthening education, and for strengthening national defense. - Kent Conrad Quotes

Democratic amendments led to a package with a smaller tax cut, far more resources for paying down the debt and strengthening education, and for strengthening national defense.

Debt

What you've got here is the most severe winter on record, followed by the most violent winter storm in 50 years. At the same time you're facing the greatest flood threat in 150 years. - Kent Conrad Quotes

What you've got here is the most severe winter on record, followed by the most violent winter storm in 50 years. At the same time you're facing the greatest flood threat in 150 years.

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers. - Kent Conrad Quotes

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

All of them are being threatened by this policy of ever escalating deficits and debt, - Kent Conrad Quotes

All of them are being threatened by this policy of ever escalating deficits and debt,

Debt

In six short months, this administration, after advocating a tax cut that was too large and after putting belief in a 10-year estimate of revenue, have put us in the bad old days of raiding every trust fund in sight, - Kent Conrad Quotes

In six short months, this administration, after advocating a tax cut that was too large and after putting belief in a 10-year estimate of revenue, have put us in the bad old days of raiding every trust fund in sight,

to give us their ideas and what they would recommend we do. - Kent Conrad Quotes

to give us their ideas and what they would recommend we do.

I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with spending cuts or new revenue to prevent us from raiding the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, - Kent Conrad Quotes

I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with spending cuts or new revenue to prevent us from raiding the Medicare and Social Security trust funds,

The request for an additional $18 billion for 2002 for defense would just make this situation worse, and I told the secretary of defense I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with a way of paying for this, - Kent Conrad Quotes

The request for an additional $18 billion for 2002 for defense would just make this situation worse, and I told the secretary of defense I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with a way of paying for this,

That is several lifetimes in politics, ... and that makes it hard to predict. There are lots of other capable people who, no doubt, will step forward. Certainly this was his best chance. - Kent Conrad Quotes

That is several lifetimes in politics, ... and that makes it hard to predict. There are lots of other capable people who, no doubt, will step forward. Certainly this was his best chance.

The president's plan will give you a little boost and then look straight down, ... In fact, past 2004 it's worse than doing nothing. - Kent Conrad Quotes

The president's plan will give you a little boost and then look straight down, ... In fact, past 2004 it's worse than doing nothing.

As the news this morning of increased joblessness and earlier reports of exploding deficit and debt reveal, the president's economic policy is a disaster. Obviously, the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Lindsey are being sacrificed to protect the president. Sadly, the removal of these economic officials will do nothing if they are simply replaced with yes-men committed to the president's relentlessly partisan agenda of pushing tax cuts at the expense of all else. - Kent Conrad Quotes

As the news this morning of increased joblessness and earlier reports of exploding deficit and debt reveal, the president's economic policy is a disaster. Obviously, the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Lindsey are being sacrificed to protect the president. Sadly, the removal of these economic officials will do nothing if they are simply replaced with yes-men committed to the president's relentlessly partisan agenda of pushing tax cuts at the expense of all else.

A massive tax-cut scheme for the wealthiest among us, because that's what's really afoot here. - Kent Conrad Quotes

A massive tax-cut scheme for the wealthiest among us, because that's what's really afoot here.

dramatically change the role of the United States Senate. - Kent Conrad Quotes

dramatically change the role of the United States Senate.

The truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities. - Kent Conrad Quotes

The truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities.

Truth

The ground-breaking research that will be done right here in North Dakota will allow our grandchildren to drive hydrogen-powered cars, live in hydrogen-powered homes and end our country's addiction to foreign sources of energy. - Kent Conrad Quotes

The ground-breaking research that will be done right here in North Dakota will allow our grandchildren to drive hydrogen-powered cars, live in hydrogen-powered homes and end our country's addiction to foreign sources of energy.

It is hard to say, but it is true: There was a failure by [Bush] to meet the responsibility here. Somebody needs to say it. - Kent Conrad Quotes

It is hard to say, but it is true: There was a failure by [Bush] to meet the responsibility here. Somebody needs to say it.

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