Political Quotes

“I really wanted to inquire of you about some of these numbers that you just said, because I am not on the Budget Committee. And I was kind of shocked in a way. We haven't not had a budget since back in the 70s, and that was just since we put this current budgeting process. And we've always had a budget, and yet this year we don't have a budget, and we are spending money at a tremendous pace. Is the rapid rate of spending, is that part of the reason we don't have a budget, because we are just so embarrassed we are spending so much? Is it because by putting a budget down it acknowledges the complete fiscal irresponsibility that we have started down that path? Do you think that's what it is? Or is it just we can't figure it out? Why don't we have a budget?”