Political Quotes

“Well, the gentleman did obviously direct remarks towards me. He pointed at me when he said: ``Why do you hate America so much?'' I love my country. I'm a U.S. marine. I'm trying to save my country from financial collapse. And that's what this is all about: stop spending money that we don't have. We've got to finish the projects that we've already started, those that have already been approved and funded, before we start dipping into the general fund. It's estimated that we'll have a shortfall of $8 billion to $9 billion if this motion to instruct is not put in place. We cannot afford the status quo. Their argument is to continue spending money, continue down a road that is going to cause a financial collapse of this Nation, in my opinion. {time} 2330 We need to create jobs. We need to get this country going economically. The policies of this administration have not worked. Policies that were put forward while Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of this House, with the stimulus bill and other big spending bills just have been essentially abject failures. We cannot continue spending money that we don't have, and that's the reason I brought this motion forward, a motion to instruct the conferees to spend--continue transportation funding, continue building our transportation infrastructure, which I think is absolutely critical for economic development. But creating more debt is not the answer.…”