Political Quotes

“Again I rise to propose an amendment just to freeze the salaries of this Office of Policy Development and Research by a mere $115,000. Madam Chairman, I hear colleagues around here talking as if millions of dollars, tens of millions--hundreds of millions of dollars is nothing. Well, most of my constituents at home in Georgia, most Americans think that $1 million is a lot of money, and I certainly think $1 million is a lot of money. But we have proposed, in this underlying bill, to raise the administrative expenses and salaries. My good friend from Massachusetts, in the previous amendment, said we need to increase the salaries of the bureaucrats. I hope my good friend from Iowa (Mr. Latham), when he stood up on the last amendment saying that we weren't going to increase salaries of Federal bureaucrats, is factual. I hope that that goes in the Record and it becomes true that we're not going to raise the salaries of Federal bureaucrats. But they're proposing raising the administrative expenses and salaries in all of these offices, so I'm proposing just to freeze these expenses for 1 more year. Let's bring this account back down to this current year's levels of spending. We cannot continue on this road. Madam Chairman, I'm a medical doctor. As a medical doctor, part of my medical practice for many years has been involved in treating addictions, drug and alcohol addictions. In addiction medicine, we have a saying: When there's no denial, there's no addiction.…”