Political Quotes

“If the Senator will yield for another moment, while we have a hard time dealing with these big numbers--and I think they approach now $3.8 trillion in spending and $2.2 trillion in money coming in--we are adding $4 billion a day. We are borrowing $4 billion a day. So in the time we had a continuing resolution for 10 days to try to decide how we cut spending, we borrowed more money in that 10 days than we saved. Then people said: That is Draconian. It is terrible. We can't spend this much money and continue to do it. If your family was bringing in $22,000 a year and spending $38,000 a year, and you had already borrowed way more money than any bank should lend you, as you just suggested, you would know that was a problem you couldn't sustain very long. If your business was bringing in $2.2 million a year and spending $3.8 million a year, you would know you are not going to be in business very long. Those are the kinds of real- world situations we have multiplied by thousands of times, but it has to be solved. The blueprint to solve that is the budget. We don't have one. The Senator's responsibility for the country is to be in that budget fight. I know the Senator is there. I know he is frustrated we don't have a blueprint, but we need a blueprint.…”