Political Quotes

“I rise to elaborate on a couple points I made a day or so ago on this stimulus package. Many in this body and constituents across Nebraska know I am a former mayor, a former city counsel person, a former county commissioner, and a former Governor. I have had the opportunity to govern during very good times when the revenues were available. I have had the opportunity to govern during very tough times, where we were trying to figure out how to balance our budget. I point out, again, that in the State I come from, we not only have to balance the budget, but we are prohibited by our Constitution from borrowing money. So the State has no debt. I have been in those positions, the beneficiary of programs such as this package but much smaller programs. I have never been, nor has anyone else been in the history of this country, the beneficiary of a spending bill this large. To describe this as large is not to do justice to the discussion. This is enormous.”