Political Quotes

“I apologize to everyone as we are sort of organizing the slides here. Mr. Speaker and anyone that is listening, okay, so the House is in a fairly cantankerous spot right now. Part of my frustration and part of the reason for actually grabbing this hour is--what is a more elegant way to use the words ``I need to stop the lying.'' Actually, I don't think we are supposed to say that on the floor--the people just making crap up. Let's actually have an educational discussion here. If you don't like math, please just turn off your television and stop watching because this is becoming a math-free zone around here. Why is there fighting here on the House floor? What is the fussing? You do understand every dime a Member of Congress votes on now is all borrowed money. There is a very good chance--we will know actually next week when the final Treasury data is posted that for this fiscal year, the 2023 fiscal year which ends this weekend, we will borrow--and I am sorry, but this is how you need to think about it--we will borrow, functionally, 9 percent of GDP. So 9 percent of the entire economy will be just the borrowed money. Not the spent money, the borrowed money. We are hitting numbers that should be terrifying. I don't know why they are not terrifying to the folks on the left. You just saw it. They just came to the microphones saying we want more money. Where does it come from? Let's actually walk through some basic facts.…”