Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I love the word of the month, ``extremists.'' Republicans are extremists. I must hear it from 43 Democrats a day in one form or another, either on the floor or somewhere on the media. Mr. Speaker, they are talking about how we are cutting education, knowing full well there are 760-some-odd education programs, only 6 percent of which go to math, reading, or science. But if we want to pare one down, we are extremists, and when we did send a perfectly good bill, trying to pare down some of the inefficiencies, to the Senate, it was the Democrats that filibustered that bill for 9 months. The reason we are here talking about education is because their party filibustered it over in the Senate, and would not let it move. Mr. Speaker, for crying out loud, let us try to be a little credible. We are not extremists. We are trying to save the American taxpayer money, and make sure that the money is spent on the people who deserve the money, and that is the students.”