Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we should note that today is the day when under the law of the country, the Republican majority should be giving us their budget. We have no budget. They do not want to present the budget, and what we have today is a diversion, a proposal that is not taken seriously by all but a handful on the other side, that no one thinks is going to go anywhere, and it is an effort to divert people's attention from the fact that they have failed their legislative responsibility to bring forward a budget. The problem is not for them that it is too easy to raise taxes. It is that for all of their rhetoric, it is too hard to cut spending. The gentleman from Texas, the author of the amendment, said if this amendment had been in effect we would have $666 billion less in revenue. Well, I assume when those who advocate this amendment would show us how they could cut $666 billion a year out of spending. But they will not; they will not even try. What we have is the emptiest rhetoric imaginable, all of this breast beating about cutting spending but not a nickel cut. Where is their budget?”