Political Quotes

“I think it is reasonable to carry on the discussion of what has happened in the last 5 years. I was elected, and my first year in Congress was 1993. In that year we had a deficit under the unified budget of $322 billion. In the next, that year for the budget for 1994, President Clinton sent us a budget with a deficit of $265 billion, a deficit in terms of a unified budget. So it was not only on the $265 billion that we were short, it was also what we were short borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund and the other trust funds of this country. I think, number one, we have got to start being very honest with the American people of what has happened. When the Republicans took the majority of this House in 1995, we changed the budget and started rescissions and started cutting down spending, getting rid of one-third of the staff in this Congress, cutting out committees, cutting out up to 200 different agencies and departments and divisions to try to reach a balanced budget.”