On the recordNovember 4, 2003
Every single one of us as Americans someday, sometime, while sitting at home or on our job, may suddenly realize something about our Government that really stirs us up and we wish we could say something and do something that somebody would hear. We are angry about it, we are upset about it, we want to say something about it. I have a privilege as a Member of the Senate of being able to do just that tonight. Nothing used to make me more upset as the Governor of Tennessee for the 8 years I was Governor than when Members of this distinguished body and the other distinguished body--Members of Congress--would get together and come up with some great idea and pass a law and tell us to do it, and then send us the bill requiring us to pay for it, even though they were printing money up here and we were balancing budgets at home.
Said by
Douglas Alexander
Labour Party
Source
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