Political Quotes

“Also, sometime, someplace, somehow future Congresses are going to start thinking that we have to operate more like a family, more like a business, that someplace down the roads we have to start paying this debt down. Nobody is talking about paying the debt down. All they are talking about is, well, maybe the debt right now is manageable and let us put the war on terrorism or whatever happens in Iraq aside for a moment because we are funding that. And I think it is reasonable to borrow more money to fund that effort to make sure our military are well equipped to the best possible degree because we certainly are going to support them. And I think everybody is going to do that. But for the other spending, let us not do business as usual. Let us start looking at the budget. Let us start prioritizing. Let us start slowing down the growth of a lot of government and let us start paying attention to a lot of fraud and abuse. In fact, just in Medicare alone, GAO estimates that in 1 year there is probably fraud that amounts to between $17 and $19 billion. And when you are spending somebody else's money, it is easy to waste some of that money. So there needs to be the kind of pressure that this body can put on the different bureaucracies to make them look very carefully at how they are spending that money and reduce some of that wasteful spending.”