Political Quotes

“And he did spend too much money. In fact, you and I, gentleman, voted ``no'' on some of the things he wanted to spend money on. His worst budget, though, was when Speaker Pelosi was in charge of this Congress in 2008, right here. That was his worst deficit, $459 billion in deficit that year. Not proud of that, $459 billion. The people said that Bush spent too much money. And here we come to the very first year of President Obama, and it's $1.4 trillion. That's three times the worst Bush deficit. And so if you had that followed by an even bigger deficit this year, you had unemployment at 9 percent, if you were one of the Democrats, would you want to pass a budget right now? I think they're running for cover. You know, we have an expression in Missouri, it's called ``hunkered down''--``hunkered down like a toad in a hail storm.'' It seems like to me, if I had anything to do with that level of deficit spending, I would be hunkered down. In fact, I think I would have resigned and gone to try to do something else with my time because this is totally destructive to our country.”