Political Quotes

“I was surprised to hear my friend from Connecticut refer to the fact that it was 2 o'clock in the morning, as if that was a reason not to debate. That is because his leadership decided this. That is because his leadership was in such a hurry to get this thing through before people looked at it that we are here at 2 o'clock in the morning. This is really a case of blaming the victim. Stay here all night, rush the debate through and then use that as an excuse to not fully debate. We are here again with a budget which is a significant improvement because it preserves the balancing of the budget. I want to remind Members of what I said before. From 1992 when we had a $292 billion deficit until this year, we reduced it $230 billion in 5 years. Now we are going the next $60 billion in another 5 years. We are nearly drowning in self-congratulation for those who are going to bring it down $65 billion in 5 years, who denigrated having brought it down $230 billion in the previous 5. Not only are they doing that, they are doing it by making things less fair. They are doing it by saying if you are poor, we will make it harder on you. If you are wealthy, we will give you more of a tax break because we think that is the way to get you to work.”