Political Quotes

“I didn't come to the floor to comment on what Senator Vitter just said, and I can sure appreciate his view that a decision that ends up with a $7 trillion addition to the national debt over the next 10 years is not getting us very far down the road compared to what the people of the United States, who have to live within their income, believe this Congress should accomplish. But a $7 trillion addition to the debt over that period of time, compared to what the President suggested we spend over the next 10 years when he issued his budget to Congress, on February 14, we could end up with $13 trillion added to the national debt--so somewhere along the line, between February 14 and last night, when the President announced his support for this compromise, he has come to the conclusion that we could spend $6 trillion less over the next 10 years. Even though a lot of people see this as not making progress, the President admitted he has found ways of changing his mind about $6 trillion in the course of just a few months. I suppose it also might lead our constituents to think in terms of, there has to be something wrong with the thinking in Washington if, on February 14, they think we have to spend X number of dollars that will add $13 trillion to the national debt and here it is just 3 or 4 months since then and the President goes on television and says this is a good compromise and we can be at $6 trillion less in spending.…”