Political Quotes

“Mr. President, shortly, we will be voting on the penny plan budget. This is a budget that cuts one penny out of every dollar. As we have gone through time and again, we have seen that there is so much waste in government, from $700,000 spent studying Neil Armstrong's statement on the Moon--did he say ``one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind,'' or did he say ``one small step for a man''? We spent $700,000 trying to discover whether Neil Armstrong said ``a man'' or just ``man.'' It is a complete boondoggle, a complete waste of money. But does it get better? No, because we keep giving people more money. Some have come to the floor and said: Well, this is just an end- around attempt to cut military spending. We can't cut any military spending. That is simply not true. The penny plan budget says nothing about cutting military spending. The penny plan budget says this: We cut 1 percent of the budgetary spending. Where it is cut in the budget is left up to the appropriations committees. It could be cut equally, or it could be cut more in some areas and less in other areas. We could cut some from military; we could cut zero from military. It is left up to the appropriators. Some would argue: Well, it doesn't define where it would come from. Well, that is the job of the appropriators and the job of the Senate to vote up or down on it.…”