Political Quotes

“I do want to repeat, because the outrageous tactics being used here need to be underlined This is an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the text of which has never had a public hearing, has in fact been in existence for barely 2 weeks, during almost all of which time we were out of session. It is being rushed through late tonight just for the symbolic version of it being on April 15. It really shows a fundamental disrespect to democracy. There has been zero public hearing on the text of this amendment. We had a hearing on the text of the earlier amendment they introduced, and it was so shabby that they had to withdraw it. They come up with a new one and they learned they better not expose it to the light of day. But this amendment shows a disrespect for democracy in another way. The question here is not the substantive one of whether or not taxes should be increased. Sometimes taxes are increased unnecessarily. When Ronald Reagan and the then Senate Finance chairman Robert Dole and the Democrats in the House collaborated in 1982 for a tax increase, I voted 'no.' In 1982, with a Republican Senate and Ronald Reagan as President, we did a tax increase. I thought it was a mistake. A year later when Ronald Reagan and Robert Dole and Tip O'Neill came together to raise taxes again for Social Security, I thought that was a mistake a I voted 'no.' I thought they made a mistake.…”