Political Quotes

“all I can think of is what has been the weight or the effectiveness of the discussion on amending the Constitution of the United States that has transpired on this floor today, and I think on balance, as we study our Congressional Record, as our citizens across the several States examine the arguments for this important policy change, I think that there will come up a shortage of logic that would persuade people that we have now reached a system or a process that would make sense in making this massive change out of desperation, to be sure, to the Constitution because the bulk of all of the arguments that I have heard for this amendment is that we are failing, we have tried everything else, and there is nothing left to do. In my judgment that is not enough. In my judgment we have already started reducing the deficit annually, and from that modest position that we find ourselves, Mr. Chairman, we could easily begin to build on increasingly reducing the deficit and, ultimately, the national debt. So, Mr. Chairman, I leave this first day of leading the debate on this side on a constitutional amendment disturbed that there has not been a persuasive case made for a constitutional amendment.”