Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, first, I am going to ask everyone's--let me extend an apology. I have fairly severe asthma and just got off an attack, so I am pumping down some inhaled steroids, just routine. Also, last weekend, I lost my voice. Should I be worried that my wife said it was the best weekend of our marriage and that staff was thrilled and upset I got my voice back? Here we go. This is like my therapy hour, because I have some things I think we need to share. One of the number one things I want to accomplish tonight is please let there be some of our incoming Members' future staff and the Members themselves listening. I know there is no one in the room. That is the way it is supposed to be. People are supposed to be in their meetings and reading and trying to understand what is going on. Don't fuss at people for not sitting here. We are on probably a thousand televisions around the Capitol campus. One of my frustrations is--we just got off election season. Would you believe during elections, people--what is the term? Oh, yeah--make crap up. We need to have an honest discussion about something called math. Let's actually have some fun. {time} 1745 Have you ever had someone say that we are going to grow ourselves out of the debt and deficit? Let's actually do some math off the top of our heads. This year's debt is going to be $2 trillion. How much does the economy have to grow to produce enough tax receipts to cover $2 trillion? It is actually fairly simple math. Mr.…”