Sitting Bull Quotes
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
In 2001, the nation had a huge budget surplus from the Clinton administration and there was much political debate over economic policy. President Bush wanted to have a very large tax cut. Greenspan had testified that given the very large surplus, the nation could afford a tax cut and not resume a deficit. However, the tax cut did not have the stimulus effect that the President had hoped, and the surplus was used up and exceeded. To make matters worse, September 11 began the War on Terror which required extensive additional government spending. The nation went from the largest surplus in American history to the largest deficit in American History in the next 4 years. Greenspan did something that is very rare in Washington. He publicly admitted error.
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.
