Sonny Bono: “Unfortunately I happen to have been sued very often in my life. I dislike all of that because it just seems to take…”

“Unfortunately I happen to have been sued very often in my life. I dislike all of that because it just seems to take everything out of your hands, and pretty soon a judge is telling you how you have to live, and why, and what, and where. And the greatest lesson I--one of the greatest lessons I ever got was when I was sued for indentured servitude, white slavery, and it got all throughout the press, and all the press read it, and it described me as a Svengali and that I controlled this person's life. Then it got to court, and it was thrown out because it was ridiculous. But that stayed with me for many, many years, until eventually people found out the truth. So my point is that you sit here and try to find out what all of this means and what all this dialog is about, and people tell you different stories about different situations, and they say, well, if the Republicans would just sign a CR, they would not inflict pain. Well, you know that depends on if the glass is half empty or half full. If the President had kept his word--now understand this, which I think is far more important: Our President should keep his word. He said, "I agree to a balanced budget, scored by CBO, within 7 years, by a certain date." When that date came and went, he did not perform, and we gave him a CR, taking his word, and he violated his word. So now they are saying, well, give us another CR.”