Political Quotes

“I would like to address certainly different issues that I think are possibly more serious than a lot of challenges this Congress has faced, this Nation has faced in fact. This is the 195th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, and in my district Republicans are celebrating Abraham Lincoln's birthday with their annual dinners. And I think of what Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address when he indicated that, Can a country of the people, by the people and for the people long endure? And now I am concerned about the system that we have in the United States where we have so many lobbying groups pushing for more money and a political system where Members of the House and the Senate often are better off and increase their probabilities of getting reelected if they start promising more programs, if they take home pork barrel projects that might allow them to be on the front page of the newspaper or on television and it ends up that they have more publicity if they spend more money down here. And that has led us into a dilemma of overspending and overpromising.”