Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we welcome these friends--former Democrats who are now Republicans--not only because they are friends and we need their help, but because their decision to join the Republican Party in both cases, as they said, was, as in Ronald Reagan's old phrase, a decision not to leave the Democratic Party, but because the Democratic Party had really left them. We have many friends here who proudly serve in the Democratic Party and uphold its traditions. From our point of view, one of those traditions is being willing to spend too much of the taxpayers' money. People like Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Richard Shelby and Paul Simon from Illinois and others who remain in the Democratic Party have finally said, 'We do not want to do that anymore. We have to balance the Federal budget.' It has not been comfortable for a Democrat to support us in that effort. The President of the United States was very much in opposition to the balanced budget amendment, and as the Senator from Georgia said a short while ago, we can probably attribute the defeat of the balanced budget amendment yesterday to the lobbying of the President of the United States.”