Bruce Morrison Quotes
When everybody is supposed to pay, nobody seems to get the bill.
Bruce Morrison, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, CT), Letter to New York Times, September 3, 1990
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Wilson was very candid that there would be high cost to war and sacrifice would be needed. See {584570} for other similar candor. This quotation was often used by critics of George W. Bush who initiated the Iraq War and then cut taxes for the rich, but then financed the war through the budgetary emergency appropriations bypassing the budget rules that the revenue must be specified to pay for it. His administration even claimed at an early stage in the war that the oil revenue from Iraq oil would defray the costs.
Debts accumulated by the allies in World War I was still outstanding a decade later. When it was proposed that the United States help reduce this debt, President Coolidge remarked:
Bruce Andrew Morrison is a former Congressman from Connecticut and candidate for Governor of Connecticut. He is a lobbyist and immigration lawyer. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and an officer of the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Committee.
