Political Quotes

“What the gentleman is pointing out is that with as much progress as we have made since 1995, there is still a lot of reason to be cautious. There is still a lot of work to do. There are people here in Washington who are saying, wow, look, $60 billion surplus going up to $110, let us go spend. Let us spend it on this program or let us spend it on that program. I think my colleague, perhaps in his next chart or one of the charts coming up, is going to talk about when the President came here for his State of the Union speech and spent most of the surplus that we really do not have. There is still a lot of work to do to get to a real surplus and to begin preparing for the deficits that we are going to be facing in 2013 in Social Security. So there is still a lot of reason to show restraint as it concerns spending here in Washington.”