Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I apologize to Ms. Salazar for having to speed up our clock here. It is sometimes just the nature of when someone else on the Democrat side cuts their time short or didn't show up. Madam Speaker, as we start to go, we are going to walk through a couple of things here. Part of this is actually going to be something I don't get to do that often. It is going to actually be optimistic with a potential solution that will functionally soak myself in kerosene and play with matches. I come here every week. I am incredibly terrified, and I am incredibly dour on what is happening with the debt, so let's actually first set up part of this conversation. We have borrowed in the last 12 months--does anyone want to give me a guess how much we borrowed per second--per second--in the last 12 months? We borrowed $63,000 per second is what the United States Federal Government--Federal Government--borrowed. Madam Speaker, if you start to actually dig into it deeper, when you start to see stories popping up of cities like Chicago with a $35 billion debt crisis coming, and that $63,000 of borrowing is just the Federal Government, that does not include a bunch of other types of pension obligations which are another--I think we had one that was showing another couple dozen trillion dollars of obligations. Now do municipal debt, now do State pension debt.…”