Political Quotes

“The truth is, if I had to describe the one issue that is the most uniting issue in my district it has become taxes. I really think that that is unique to this year. I think that there have been questions about taxes, complaints about taxes as long as people have been paying them. Over the years there have been a variety of concerns, but somewhere over the last 4 or 5 years the American public began to believe that truly Congress was going to direct their attention to the tax burden that we pay and that we were going to address that issue, resolve that issue, and find a way to lower their taxes, a variety of their taxes. There are particular taxes that are very unpopular in this country. As Congress has moved into its third year under the direction of this leadership, there seems to be some frustration and some concerns that we have not addressed the issue yet. So tonight I would like to take this opportunity to make some suggestions about how we might go about in a government of bipartisan control, of bipartisan work, to resolve the impasse of tax cuts and government spending so that we can truly address the questions and the concerns that so many of our constituents have.”