Political Quotes

“I rise to speak as to what is going on here today as the new chair of the Senate full Committee on Appropriations. That means we are the committee that actually puts money in the Federal checkbook. I would like to talk about that because, you see, today here we are on New Year's Eve doing what we should have done right after Labor Day. We are behind the clock, and actually we are behind the thinking of the American people. They want us to come together and have sensible fiscal policies that promote growth and at the same time balance it with a new sense of frugality. The fact that we have come to this point with this culture of delay in this institution I think is really unacceptable. But I don't want to go into the culture of the institution, I want to go into actual discussions of something called sequester and spending. The words of Washington are a foreign language. We use words that nobody understands, and we use numbers that nobody believes. I am telling you that with me, there is going to be a new day and a new way--plain talk, straight talk about what we are doing here. So let's talk about the word ``sequester.'' Sequester literally means that you are going to--sequester stands for an arcane government word that means you are going to have automatic, across-the-board government spending cuts. These are supposed to be triggered if we don't resolve the issues today and will happen on January 2.…”