Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Levin. Our job here is to educate the public, not to entertain them. They ran up deficits on the Republican side of $6 trillion during an 8-year period of time--$2.3 trillion worth of tax cuts and two wars. Now they come back today with a glitzy proposal of no work, no pay. Institutional memory. Do you remember their term limits pledge? They invented that. They're all still here. Do you remember their line-item veto? the constitutional theorists? They got rid of that. How about that they were going to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution? My dad used to say, ``At least Jesse James had enough personal respect to wear a mask.'' The people who put us into this situation are now quibbling about raising the debt ceiling when they almost broke the country with the proposals that they offered during all of those years, and never once did they deny President Bush on those proposals.”