Political Quotes

“You said this, and I actually stole it from you months ago, Mr. Roy. Every dime we as Members of Congress vote on is borrowed money. Every dime we vote on is borrowed money, and if you actually sort of work it out on the annual, all defense is borrowed, all nondefense discretionary is borrowed, and about one-third of Medicare is on borrowed money. Most people can't get their heads around the fact that everything we vote on is borrowed money, and over here, it is on autopilot. I have been trying to make the moral argument of what is doable. I believe we could crash the price of healthcare. I believe we could dramatically shrink government. We had a hearing on artificial intelligence over in the Senate with the Joint Economic Committee. We had a couple of experts saying: You realize you could get rid of all these employees and do all this stuff with crowdsourcing and this and that. You could revolutionize the size and cost of this government tomorrow if we would legalize the technology and use it. You have to deal with the army of lobbyists and the army of people from bureaucracies who will knife us for just actually saying that.”