Gilbert Gutknecht: “To change the subject slightly, there was a Pepsi commercial that used…”

On the recordApril 24, 1997

To change the subject slightly, there was a Pepsi commercial that used to say life is a series of choices. And really Congress is about making choices. We may have to have some different priorities. It may mean that we will have to delay the purchase of some of the B-2 bombers. It may mean that we are going to have to pull our troops out of Bosnia sooner because we simply cannot afford $2.5 billion a year to keep troops in a country that may or may not ever be at peace with itself. There are a lot of choices that we are going to have to make in this Congress, and they are not easy choices, but I hope that we will not say to people, whether it be in Grand Forks, ND, or East Grand Forks or some of those people who really are suffering that we are not going to help you. I really do think we have to help those people, but then we have got to make the tough choices.

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Gilbert Gutknecht

Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing budget priorities and military spending during a congressional debate.

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Gilbert Gutknecht: “To change the subject slightly, there was a Pepsi commercial that used to say life is a series of choices. And really…”

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