Political Quotes

“I do commend anyone who tries to save the taxpayers a buck, and I have actually voted with you guys on these things tonight. But the net effect of what you have done tonight is sort of like a flea biting into the hide of an elephant and saying, I have really got him now. The last vote was for 50 million. To give you some idea of just how broke this Nation is, at the end of last month our Nation was $6,126,468,760,400.48 in debt. When the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert) was sworn in as Speaker, the Nation's debts was only, comparatively, $5,615,428,551,461.33. That means in the approximately 1,290 days he has been Speaker, $511,040,208,938 have been added to the debt, and you are worried about 50. See, in those approximately 1,290 days the Speaker has not allowed this body to vote on what really matters, and that is in the cutting a little bit here or a little bit of a tax break there, it is a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. So whether the R's or the D's or the I's or the chickens are running this House, the rules are you cannot cut taxes more than it takes to balance a budget, and you cannot spend more than you have in the bank. See, the biggest problem with this country is that we are squandering a billion dollars a day on interest on the national debt.”