Political Quotes

“The ranking member made a good point, and in this body you should always go along with that which is true and oppose that which is false. The gentleman made an excellent point: we do have hundreds of thousands of hardworking Federal employees. They deliver to the American people a good product. The vast majority of them, if you ask them, do not feel they're overcompensated. They've worked hard; they're highly educated; in fact, they're not overpaid in many ways. They do, in fact, have a very generous defined benefit plan, something the American people usually don't have, something that would guarantee them a pension over and above their 401(k). And automatically it increases with inflation; automatically it is funded. That's true whether you're a postal worker, a Member of this body, or the executive branch. We're not arguing whether or not the Federal worker is dedicated at all. We're arguing whether this is the right time to add $11 billion to a $10 trillion deficit that we're not dealing with. We have a $10 trillion deficit after today's action on ``ending the cliff'' that is still going to be projected. It hasn't been scored exactly, but it will still be over $1 trillion this year--and if history repeats itself, for every remaining year of the Obama administration. Now, the gentleman from Maryland did say one thing that perhaps was not accurate--and he didn't mean to. He said, well, if you ask people around here.…”