Political Quotes

“But my daddy was one of the smartest people that I ever knew. He had less than a third grade education, and I often heard him say that the road to the poorhouse was paved with good intentions. We have created so many programs in this country, so many programs that have to be funded, that it has created excessive taxation on the American people. What we are talking about here today, sir, is cash flow. There are people in this Chamber and this body who are concerned about the cash flow of the Treasury of the United States, rather than the cash flow of the constituency at home, who get up every day or work 12 hours, 14 hours, sometimes around the clock, to make ends meet for their families. But we are taking so much of it. And we also require them to have to shift their cash flow at home to meet necessities, where it used to be they could meet necessities and niceties because they had the money. But today they do not. It has been mentioned about energy. Yes, gas prices are excessive, and they are going to go even higher. But a lot of it has been due to the recent years of overprotection, overregulating, the lack of providing the facilities and the infrastructure to have the energy necessary to keep this country going, that now the price is out of hand and now some people are getting concerned about it, only because of the cash flow of the Treasury, not the cash flow of people.”