Political Quotes

“I do want to talk about why this is so important, and I appreciate his spirit of cooperation. The gentleman from Connecticut and I have been working on this. We kind of inherited this from the former Member, the gentleman from Colorado, and others. What we are saying is very important, and we want to get this into the Record. We have signed a budget deal. The budget deal includes some difficult choices. Some of us have rejected it, a great majority have accepted it, but obviously, among those who have accepted it, they are aware, in fact, they are proud of the fact that it will cause some difficulty, it will impose some restraints. One big set of constraints comes in discretionary spending. Military spending is half of that. Many of those who support a strong military think we are allocating too little to the military. Some of us feel that the military is getting too much and that is constraining other programs. We ought to have virtual unanimity on this point.”