Some quotes quoted in "See, I told you so" by Rush Limbaugh



"We need to provide a tax credit of up to $800 per child to ease the
burden on working families."
     -Bill Clinton, March 1992
 
"We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans.  Middle-class
taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a
significant reduction in their income tax rate."
     -Bill Clinton, "Putting People First"
 
"We should cut middle-class taxes immediately by 10 percent."
     -Bill Clinton, Campaign Document, September 1992
 
"We want to give modest middle-class tax relief to restore some
fairness, especially to middle-class people with families with incomes
of under $60,000 per year."
     -Bill Clinton, First Presidential Debate, October 1992
 
"I've offered a comprehensive plan to get our economy moving again.
It starts with a tax cut for the middle class."
     -Bill Clinton, First Campaign ad, January 1992
 
"I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my
view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a
short-term economic strategy."
     -Bill Clinton, January 19, 1992
 
"From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me,
the press thought the most important issue in the race was the
middle-class tax cut.  I never did meet any voter who thought that."
     -Bill Clinton, press conference, January 14, 1993
 
 
 
"I will not raise taxes on the middle class."
     -Bill Clinton, June 21, 1992
 
"I'm not going to raise taxes on the middle class."
     -Bill Clinton, July 13, 1992
 
"I had hoped to invest in your future without asking more of you.  And
I've worked harder than I've ever worked in my life to meet that goal.
But I can't."
     -Bill Clinton, Oval Office address, Feb 15, 1993, announcing
middle-class tax increase after being in office less than one month.
 
$178 Billion: cost of Clinton's proposed new spending.  $173 Billion:
revenues raised under Clinton plan from taxes (Social Security,
income, energy, and gas taxes).
 
"There are [tax] increases for every family making more than $20,000 a
year."
     -New York Times, Analysis of Clinton's Budget
 
Deficit in 1998 with Clinton budget: $234 billion.  Deficit in 2001
with Clinton budget: $401 billion.
     -Bill Contion's budget document, "A vision of change for
America," February 1993
 
 
 
"He [Bush] hasn't fought a real war on crime and drugs.  I will."
     -Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
 
121 positions at the Office of National Drug Control Policy
eliminated.  Policy of random drug testing for White House staff
revoked.
     -White House announcement, February 9, 1993