Political Quotes

“I hope that we will put Federal employees back to work. Well, that is fine. I want them to go back to work, too. I do not think anybody likes to pay people for not working. That was what the majority leader said the other day, that he grew up in Kansas, and he felt like if you worked you got paid, if you did not work, you did not get paid. So I support his position. But in this continuing resolution that is coming over here we are going to pay the employees retroactively, and we are going to pay them for coming to the office. But we are not funding the necessary ingredients for them to work. They talked about the DEA agent. They had a drug bust, and he wanted to go. They needed him--several of them. They did not have any money to buy gasoline to put in the car under this continuing resolution. That does not make sense to this country, boy, that you say, 'Go back to work. We're going to pay you, but you can't do anything.'”