Political Quotes

“as Congress prepares to take up a balanced budget amendment, I would like to offer to my Senate colleagues the perspective of a new freshman Senator who ran on an aggressive platform to reform Congress and limit the size of Government. In my view, the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution embodies the spirit of the electorate that voted for a Republican Congress for the first time in 40 years last November. We in the Senate should not let them down. The Founding Fathers recognized that persistent Government deficits and the growth of Government has consequences for the long-term stability of our democracy and implications for our individual freedoms. The reason why the Founding Fathers did not include a balanced budget requirement in the Constitution is because they felt it would be superfluous. Paying off the national debt and balancing the budget was considered a high priority of the early administrations.…”