Jack Kingston: “So are farmers, so are veterans and so are business people. Somehow, Washington does not get the message. Sometimes they…”

“So are farmers, so are veterans and so are business people. Somehow, Washington does not get the message. Sometimes they get beat around up here, as you do, people come to the office, you have to vote, and you are darned if you do and darned if you do not on an issue. You go home and you realize that the guy in the morning who wakes up at the crack of dawn, who puts his lunch together and eats it out of a lunch pail, drives maybe 20 miles to work, and comes home late at night after putting in a full day, he is tired, his kids are there and his wife has had a full day at her job, they are not disappointed in the vote that we may have cast because they want a government that works. They just want good, commonsense policies, a balanced budget. They want an American dream they can pass on to their children and grandchildren, they want a good future that they can retire with a health care program that is there and a neighborhood that is safe. If they can have that, that is what they want. I think what they are asking from you and me as their representatives in Washington is just to do what is right, to do what is good for America. If you do that, do not worry about lobbyists and the big government crowd, and then the day is a good day. I go home and think about those folks, because often they do not write. Many times they do not have business cards, they do not have titles and so forth, but that is whose interests we really have to look out for.”