Political Quotes

“I do not think I will require a whole lot of time, but I rise in support of the Robb amendment. Mr. President, I had hoped we would not reach the stage where we really were attempting--and it certainly may not pass, but at least there is an attempt being made here--to send the whole budget resolution back. The reason I am reluctant to get to this stage is because I know how hard the Budget Committee has worked. I understand the hours they put in. I certainly understand the leadership required by the Senator from Tennessee and the Senator from New Mexico to put together a budget which, by anybody's definition, is very difficult to do. It is very easy to see why we have such huge deficits when you look at what has happened here on the floor in the defense area and in the other areas. If you look at the chart that the Senator from Virginia has displayed here, you could easily see what is happening to the Federal budget. Now a lot of people do not want to look at it. They do not want to basically confront the facts, but at some point arithmetic has to take over. I do not know how many years it is going to take before we start being able to just add and subtract in this body. At some point we have to understand that you are not going to get the deficit under control, nor are you going to be able to continue to finance the domestic side of this budget as well as the entitlement programs by cutting defense.”