Political Quotes

“The motivation for this is a distrust of democracy in the people. The gentleman from Pennsylvania said the Democrats kept control by buying the support of the people with programs. In other words, the people dared to disagree with him. The majority preferred certain programs. For example, to take a program that I believe would have been made impossible by this amendment, the Medicare program, because the Medicare program was passed by less than a two-thirds majority, and it raised taxes because we financed Medigap through Social Security, and the gentleman is correct. The Democratic majority of 1965 would not have been able to buy the support of the people who crassly said, 'We'll take some Medicare in return for a tax increase.' He would like to make it impossible. What this amendment is about is a fundamental distrust of democracy, and arguing frankly as to what the results are of having tax limitation or not seems to me inappropriate because we do not in my view derogate from democracy because we think it will have better results.”