Political Quotes

“I hope that cooler heads will prevail in this campaign season and that suggestions like this will be put in the trash bin where they belong, at a time when we are moving forward and achieving deficit reduction numbers, the economy is growing, the gross domestic product numbers and the unemployment levels are moving in the right direction. This is a time to come together. Nobody expects perfection here. Our Republican friends made a huge mistake in their predictions about the 1993 budget reduction efforts. All of us have made mistakes. So why not admit you made a mistake? It was a bad vote. You should have supported it, and you did not. Collectively, we have come together and the country is moving in the right direction. I hope we won't destroy what has been a very significant effort over the last number of months to move the country in the proper direction by reducing this deficit, resulting, I believe, in the kind of gross domestic product growth numbers that we are seeing here today, the unemployment numbers that are moving us in the right direction. This is not a time to try to pander to the American public with the suggestion of massive tax cuts for the affluent, paid for by rosy economic figures that are unrealistic and cuts in the very programs we have fought to defend.”