Political Quotes

“decency, common sense, good-faith, all of those great words are nice but here is the agreement, in case we forget. But here is the resolution that passed the House of Representatives and the Senate and went to the President and he agreed to it. The wording in the law is as follows: ``The President and the Congress shall enact legislation in the first session of the 104th Congress to achieve a balanced budget not later than fiscal year 2002 as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office,'' et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I will say that the words are very clear in that law and the President is in violation of this agreement. Now where, Mr. President, is the balanced budget to be achieved in the next 7 years? The President has not produced it, and, when he does, according to the next piece of legislation that will clear this House of Representatives today, the Government will go back to work as planned on a normal basis. Until then, Mr. President, we are going to continue to be faced with a problem. The President wants the status quo. He wants to continue to fund the big bureaucracies. He wants to take the taxpayers' money and he wants to spend it as normal. We do not. We want to cut Government. We want to slice back the role of the Federal bureaucracy that the Democrats have created over the last 40 years. And there it is the current situation, Mr. Speaker and my friends and colleagues.…”