Political Quotes

“I actually had an interesting case in my district last year. I visited a number of plants in my district, and I remember the date because it was the date we started the Teamsters investigation. Talk about waste. That is $20 million that the taxpayers paid to run the Teamsters election in the U.S. and in Canada. The taxpayers paid for it. I was at a plant the day that that election got thrown out, and I was taking them through some of the numbers and explaining to them that by 2002 we were going to reach balance or surplus. It was a small plant and one of the guys just started laughing and said, ``Sure.'' Well, I went back. I went back the first week of September of this year and told them that by the end of the month, by September 30 when we close our fiscal year, he was right. He should have laughed in 1997, because we did not balance it in 2002; we are actually going to get there in 20 days. In 20 days, we will reach that point where we cross the line, and we are probably past that point already.”