379 Quotes by Tom Daschle

Second, the tax cut must be fair to all Americans. Third, it must allow us to pay down the debt,

time bomb. This is going to be $4-to-$5 trillion when it is fully implemented.

This administration has to do a lot better,

This across-the-board cut has nothing to do with ridding ourselves of waste, ... This goes to muscle and bone of programs.

second-guess what has been done to date ... the jury is still out on future success.

We aren't comfortable coercing somebody to speak, ... But when you have somebody this important and when you have the issue as critical as it is for all of this country at stake, there shouldn't be any question about his willingness to come before the committees.

Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

Sen. Jeffords' decision now produces some changes, ... The historic 50-50 Senate now becomes history. This will be America's first 50-49-1 Senate.

America can't afford to keep rewarding the accumulation of wealth over the dignity of work,