Political Quotes

“as was stated earlier, I do consider it an honor and a privilege to come to the floor of this House to address you, Mr. Speaker, and to carry this message across the waves to the American people. I would first take up the issue of a balanced budget, and I would submit that we can balance this budget, Mr. Speaker, and we do not need to do so by raising taxes. We need to do so by fiscal responsibility. I raised an issue today, I testified before the Budget Committee here in the House of Representatives, and I laid out a scenario by which we can balance this budget for this year. And I also acknowledge that it is quite painful. It is not realistic from a political perspective, but I think it is important that the Budget Committee produce a balanced budget so that we can measure the pain to so many of the programs that would have to be cut. But a simple version, and it is a quick version, it is not the thing that I would propose as a balanced budget, Mr. Speaker, but it is one the ways that we can easily understand the magnitude of the budget situation we have. First of all, if you would reinstate the Bush tax cuts and calculate those back into the revenue side, it almost does not show at all on the bottom line as to whether we are running a deficit or a surplus in our spending; and I have a calculator in my computer that allows me to do that. It almost does not show on the graph when you calculate that.…”