Political Quotes

“the country is truly well served by having the Senator from North Dakota as ranking member. I don't know anyone who knows more about facts relating to our budget this year, last year, or in the last decade than the Senator from North Dakota. I am not being solicitous. A good friend of ours from the State that was much closer to North Dakota than Delaware--from Wyoming, Senator Simpson--used to say in the Senate repeatedly, in his colloquial way: You know, everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not entitled to their own facts. It seems as though some in the Senate think they are entitled to their own facts. I will repeat some things that have been said here. They are so consequential I don't know how they cannot be repeated because they have not seemed to have broken through the ether, not here necessarily, but even in the country. To state the obvious, these are very serious times, just as they were at the dawn of the atomic age when Einstein observed ``that everything had changed except our way of thinking.'' We face mortal threats to our Nation from terrorists from rogue nations, expanding international commitments, a looming and gigantic democratic transition--a fancy word for saying there is going to be a bulge in the retirement-age people, myself included, and part of this baby boom generation--and our thinking must now change, not just about how we secure our safety in this dangerous new world but how we maintain our economic security, as well.…”