Political Quotes

“Some will criticize this exercise of keeping the Senate awake at night. The rumblings can be heard, but what I would say is that the future of the country is worth the time spent. One of the reasons we are spending the middle of the night discussing this is that we don't have an ordinary process for proposals. We don't have an ordinary process for amending bills. Were there to be an ordinary process where conservatives would be allowed an alternative such as cut, cap, and balance--we actually did that in 2011 when the opposite party was in charge. We did have a vote on cut, cap, and balance. It actually passed. It passed in the House overwhelmingly and was defeated in the Senate, but the fact is there are other alternatives. There isn't just one alternative. The only alternative shouldn't be that we continue to go further and further into debt. Sometimes people say: Well, I can't even conceive of $1 trillion. It is just this enormous money, this enormous amount of money. What is $1 trillion? To illustrate what $1 trillion is, imagine if you had thousand-dollar bills in your hand and you had thousand-dollar bills stacked four inches high. That would be $1 million. But if you want to imagine $1 trillion, in thousand-dollar bills it would be 63 miles high. That is what we are talking about adding. While they have not specified how much debt they are going to burden us with, many are estimating that it will be over $1 trillion.…”