Political Quotes

“The thing is, you and I are not talking about something that is speculative or based on theory. These graphs are ending in 2010. These are actual numbers. This is what has happened, and it doesn't work. It didn't work for FDR, and it's not going to work for President Obama and the Democrats. It just won't work. That is what is happening to employment in the private sector. And the red line, of course, is government. And a whole lot of that is these census people running around and snooping on everybody and figuring out who lives in what house and everything, which, of course, makes you feel just wonderful that we're putting those kind of government jobs on instead of just killing manufacturing. Let's get to the mechanics, though, because all of this stuff, it's not rocket science. This is basic, basic economics. I just wish some of the Democrats had run lemonade stands when they were kids. They could understand some real simple kinds of economics here. One of the things, we had a town hall meeting back in my district. I thought maybe I am getting too radical, maybe I have been here too long. You know that old folk song you have been on the job too long. So I asked them. I said, Now, if you wanted to kill jobs, what would you do? What are the job killers? You know what was the top of their list? Excessive taxation.”