Political Quotes

“Well, I sure appreciate the way that you represent your district, and I know your constituents do. We're proud of you, and thank you for the fact that you bring that kind of common sense from the heartland here to the Capitol. We need a little more of that common sense. Thank you so much, gentleman. So I was just running along. We talked about what caused all this problem. Well, a lot of it was government policies and the idea of giving people all these loans. They couldn't afford to repay them, and then you have everybody buying all of these different kinds of mortgage-backed securities. And the major corporations in America, the Wall Street corporations, started to fail and choke on these bad policies that are based on no common sense at all. So now you have what's happened before in America and, that is, you have a recession going on. So the question is, What do you do if you've got a recession? And different Presidents have had different approaches to that. But what we have seen, as we've just been talking about, is we have done about everything on this list which are things that are going to kill jobs. We've done everything policy-wise wrong. We could hardly get anything more wrong. First of all, according to the small business people in our community, the excessive taxation. Well, let's talk about what the taxation was. Well, you've got the Wall Street bailout which is basically creating a whole lot of the government debt which is going to have to turn into taxation.”