Political Quotes

“When I have discussed this issue with folks at home, with constituents in Kentucky, the question they ask me is, How can you give the President an unspecified amount to borrow? Weren't you elected to try to stop this? I was elected in 2010 when the tea party movement arose. The tea party movement arose--and this is an interesting, maybe some say, historical fact--the tea party arose not so much in criticism of Democrats; the tea party folks weren't those who really believed the Democrats would be fiscally responsible. The tea party arose because they were concerned that Republicans weren't being fiscally responsible. The tea party arose largely as a rebuke to the Republican Party. The tea party arose and said: You know what, bailing out the banks wasn't something the average middle class, ordinary, conservative Republican supported. We didn't support the bailouts. We didn't support President Obama's huge and enormous government stimulus, nearly $1 trillion. We also don't support borrowing or lending money for these programs. There are two ways you can stop this. You can stop this by voting against the spending, which there doesn't seem to be a significant amount of will in this body on either side of the aisle to stop and discontinue this profligate spending. So it is spending and borrowing, spending and borrowing. Which comes first? Well, they go hand-in-hand, but it is a real problem.…”