Political Quotes

“The expiration of these Bush tax cuts has been marching towards us for a long time. We know, when we get into the silly season of politics, any decisions that are made in Congress are made to send a message to the voters and not necessarily to provide the best policy to the American people. Call me a cynic, but I think your pundits and your historians will recognize that Congress does things just prior to an election that aren't particularly rational unless you put them within the context of the lens of sending a message to the voters that you're really not as bad as they think you are, for example. So any of this decision could have been made with responsibility and foresight. It could have been made in any of the preceding months. It could have been something that was concluded in June or July, for example. We could have extended these tax cuts for 10 years, or we could have made them permanent, which is as I would have preferred; but it didn't happen.”