Political Quotes

“You know, for the last 14 months I have heard one speaker after another from both sides of the aisle come up and talk about how important it is to balance the budget. We are going to do it, oh, we are going to balance the budget, but not with this program, because this program is a good program, that program is a good program. You know, you need a little more, a little touch-up over here, a little more spending here. In fact, that is what we have been hearing in my 19 years in the U.S. Congress, 'We are going to do it one day.' But, oh, now that we are really getting serious, now that we are really starting to get a handle on discretionary spending, let us come up with new gimmicks, new tricks, and when you have got a good idea, let's just not worry about the discretionary side of the equation. Let us switch it over to the mandatory side of the equation. Let us just kind of move it over in a bookkeeping entry, lock it into law, make it an entitlement, walk away from it because we know this program is a good one; it will be funded for eternity.”