Political Quotes

“I say this somewhat facetiously but also somewhat seriously. We have a Base Closure Commission to deal with the fact that some bases needed to be closed and we could not deal with the politics of it. We had a commission not exactly like this, but we had one that helped us try to address the problem of Social Security back in the 1980's. Of course, we had the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings-Mack legislation to try to deal with getting control of the deficit. Are we just going to create one commission after another and basically turn our responsibility over to a series of commissions and only rubber stamp what they do?”