Political Quotes

“And especially in an emergency. If we have an emergency in our business or family, then we cover that emergency and cut down on spending. Right now we have an emergency in the Federal Government. When we have a war on our hands, a war on terror, a war to make sure that we have security in this country, if there is ever a time when it is reasonable to hold the line on other spending, to start prioritizing a little on where we spend the money, it is now. Let us spend the money. Let us make sure that, to the best of our ability, that we have the security. Let us beef up our military where we are comfortable with that level. But with the rest of the spending, let us not demand, like we have in past years, that we just continue to spend as if there is no emergency facing us, and that is what we are doing. What was just handed me, and I do not know if the gentleman can see it, it is the line that projects the increased debt up through 2012. We will see from the 1940s on the debt stayed relatively flat. Traditionally, even the so-called liberal Democrats did not want to increase the debt. In fact, we did not have a fixed debt limit. Every time they increased the debt up until 1983, they said that this was going to be temporary, and at some point it was going to revert back to the previous level of debt, because they did not want to permanently increase the obligation of their kids and their grandkids and great grandkids.”