Political Quotes

“I thank my colleagues, and I think my colleague from Arizona brings up a good point that the public needs to remember, defining the surplus and then the difference between our goal of giving a small amount of money back to the taxpayers, and it was a small percentage, versus more government spending. That is what separates the two parties, a view of bigger government, more taxes, less freedom versus our basic ideology which is less government, individual responsibility, lower taxes. I want to highlight some things. We all bring our own special backgrounds, life experiences as Members of Congress. As we have had a lot of time, many of us who were not in the closed-door sessions and hashing out the final agreements to go through our in boxes, I came upon a document from a colleague in the other body that talked about military and military readiness. I just want to highlight a few items.”