Political Quotes

“it gives me a real thrill to be here today and to be part of this debate. When I ran for Congress in 1995, what I told my constituents was that there was a new day in this country, a day of talking about restraint, a day of talking about balancing the budget, a day of talking about Social Security and saving Social Security, and that it was going to require a lot of courage, it was going to require us to look at things differently, but that I felt that I could be part of that debate and part of that solution. Since I arrived in 1996, the first thing we tackled was balancing the budget. It was a thrill to me when we passed the balanced budget amendments and set ourselves on a course that we were going to restrain spending and balance the budget. But even then, we did not imagine that we would be able to, as quickly as now, also restrain ourselves from spending Social Security surpluses.”