Political Quotes

“last Friday I left this Chamber with a folder containing most of the information from the Ryan-Murray comprehensive agreement on the budget. I left with the ringing of suggestions in my ear from some colleagues on the floor that it wasn't enough, it didn't do enough, and that we didn't need to pass it. But inside me I had that little voice of conscience all of us get from time to time that said the time was right to do what was right. So on the airplane back to Atlanta, I read the entire agreement. Then, when I spent the weekend at home while doing Christmas shopping, going out with grandchildren and talking to my wife, I also listened to the people of Georgia. I listened to what they said, and there were some remarkable things that happened this weekend. At church on Sunday following a cantata--and usually I am accosted at church by people who have all kinds of various suggestions about what I should or should not be doing--but I was remarkably surprised by how many people came up to me and said: Thank goodness you all have finally found an agreement with predictability on the spending in our Federal budget. I received not one negative comment. I left church, went to lunch, and then went shopping at the mall where I was stopped three or four times by people--some Democrats, some Republicans; some I knew, some I did not--again, the same comment: Finally, you guys have gotten your act together and you have gotten a bipartisan agreement on the budget.…”