Political Quotes

“So often what happens is, though we are not authorized under the Constitution to pass laws, what we do is a combination of bribery and blackmail in trying to impose the will of the Federal government on local jurisdictions. So we say, look, if you do it the way we in Washington think you should do it, if you do it the Washington bureaucratic way, then you can have some of the money back that you paid us in the first place in taxes. In the transportation bills in the past, we said, look, you cannot have the transportation dollars that you sent us in the first place unless you do such things as lower your speed limit. You cannot have the education money the President is suggesting unless you use it to build a building or unless you use it to do this or unless you use it for the things that we say. The propensity of Washington is that they are elitist. They think they can make the decisions better than the people at the State and local level. I think it is important that we start looking at reducing the tax burdens so the American workers can start experiencing the creation of wealth.”