Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. My constituents have a very simple question for people participating in this debate today: What part of broke don't you understand? What part of the fact that we are borrowing 42 cents of every dollar don't you get? Do you know what happens to the everyday American if they borrow 42 cents of every dollar time after time after time? It's bankruptcy. They lose their homes. They lose their ability to provide food for their families. They go broke, just like this country is going broke today. Only Congress doesn't have to pay an overdraft fee. When we write checks for more money than we have, we're not paying an overdraft fee. You know what we're paying, we're paying interest. We're passing the buck. We're putting our future into great debt that they cannot sustain for current-day spending. We shouldn't be passing the buck. We should pass the BBA, the balanced budget amendment. I come from the State of Colorado, served in the Colorado State Legislature where we have a strong balanced budget amendment. And you know what that forces us to do? It forces us to make tough choices, to make the right decisions for the people of Colorado and to make sure that we are, indeed, balancing our budget. Sure, it means that there are some very difficult decisions that have to be made, but that's exactly what we were sent here to do. We weren't sent here to fiddle while the Treasury burns.…”