Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we are going to try to do three things tonight. One, I am going to spend a few minutes sort of talking about folklore. I have tried this a couple of times. It hasn't worked, but hope springs eternal. I will sort of walk through some of the comments you get and try to explain where reality is, and maybe they are bots or maybe they are made up. The second thing, we are going to walk through the borrowing numbers off of the Treasury's website so they are up to date on what is actually happening. I need to do it over and over because I am trying to get this place to understand how fast the numbers are moving away from us. Number three, we are going to do some thought experiments. I am going to show some ideas in technology that actually could fairly substantially change the borrowing and debt curve. First off, last week, I appreciate that Forbes put up on YouTube last week's floor speech. I think now 640,000 people have viewed it, which is wonderful. However, you then read some of the comments, and you accept some of the comments are from Russian troll farms, Chinese troll farms, or Iranian troll farms, or they are bots. It is just lunacy. Every once in a while, you get the person who says: Why aren't there any people in the Chamber? They are not supposed to be here. The work of the day is done. Now, we do our floor speeches. Some evenings, they are still in committee until late at night. It is right now--what?--7:30 here in Washington.…”