Political Quotes

“The President spoke to us last night and he talked to us about avoiding the sequester. I was at a political event being interviewed and a gentleman, Mr. Pompeo from Kansas, was with us as well, and he spoke before I did. He talked about the sequester and he said: It's going to be a home run. We're doing what the American people ask the United States House of Representatives to do in 2010 when I came here. He then said, in referring to the sequester: I think the American people . . . will have tremendous respect for what its House of Representatives led and what its Federal Government was able to accomplish. A profound disagreement. I think the gentleman from Kansas is profoundly wrong. The sequester will have an extraordinarily negative effect on this country, on its people, on its economy, and on its national security, and I might say on the confidence that the world at large has in the United States' ability to pursue rational policy. In the State of the Union address last night, Mr. Speaker, with regard to deficits, the President said this: None of us will get 100 percent of what we want. But the alternative will cost us jobs, hurt our economy, and visit hardship on millions of hardworking Americans. He went on to say: The greatest Nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. Every 30 days, every 60 days, every 90 days, a manufactured crisis, evidence of a dysfunctional and willful Congress.…”