Political Quotes

“we are barely 3 hours into this Congress and the political hedonists of this Congress have struck their first blow. You know hedonism, if it feels good do it regardless of the consequences. Well, that is exactly what those people who have voted repeatedly to raise the debt limit and to stick our children and our children's children with our bills have done. Now they want to do it even better. One of the few things that controlled their urge to run up the bill and stick our kids with it was at least a law that said we had to vote to raise the debt limit. Now they want to do away with that law. They want a rule that says if they pass a budget we do not have to raise the debt limit. I would remind them that in the 19 months since the Bush budget became law, that we have stuck our children and our children's children with $749,529,498,242 worth of new debt. It did not stimulate the economy. It stimulated the debt. It is political hedonism. You heard it here first. You are going to hear it a lot. Just a little while ago the Speaker of the House said, ``We pledge to fight those who would endanger our freedom.'' Those of you who would bankrupt our Nation will destroy our freedom. And, therefore, just as the Speaker pledged to fight those who would endanger our freedom, I pledge to fight you tooth and nail on every effort to increase the national debt and every effort to hide the way that you do it.”