Political Quotes

“we are called here in this Chamber today not to do the people's business but to engage in what I think is dilatory tactics. We are called upon to spend a day in this Chamber not making laws, but engaged in a ritualistic attack on President Clinton and his fiscal record. So I figured we ought to take a minute just to look at the President's fiscal record. This chart here shows where we were headed in terms of a deficit before President Clinton took office. We see this line exceeding $100 trillion. Now, I have only served in Congress for a short time. I remember when $1 billion was a lot of money. And we used to explain it as a line of $100 bills going from Washington all the way across the country or a stack of $1 bills all the way to the Moon. We were headed for a $100 trillion deficit. That is a stack of $100 bills going all the way to whatever planet Yoda lives on. Instead, we have fiscal responsibility in the White House, and we have been able to bring long-term prospects represented by that lower line to a position where a balanced budget, a long-term and permanent balanced budget, is within reach.”