Political Quotes

“I for one am fed up with this type of political mudslinging. It does a disservice to serious discussion of the issue, and I hope that the American people are tired of it, too. I hope that this incident forces my colleague and his associates at the RNC to actually read the full text of my speeches and stop the blatant misrepresentation. And Mr. President, from the National Journal's Congressional Daily, they have a quote on page 8 of March 2. On Wednesday, Ford's Washington office received 407 phone calls supporting the balanced budget amendment and 765 opposing it, according to the office spokesman. The ratio has remained about the same throughout the week in the Washington and State offices, he said. In addition, Republican National Chairman Haley Barbour shrugged off a claim by Ford that RNC ads running in Ford's home State of Kentucky backfired and helped solidify Ford's position on the amendment. And I quote Mr. Barbour. Mr. Barbour says, and I quote: ``I was born at night but not last night,'' Barbour said, adding that he does not believe ``any member of the United States Senate could vote against the wishes of his constituents merely because he got his feelings hurt by a TV ad.'' Now, Mr. President, I was born at night, but I was not born last night. What I said was when they started running the ads against me in Kentucky, it stirred up a hornet's nest. It caused other groups that were opposed to the amendment to gear up.”