Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. You know, I've often said that being here in Washington is like being Alice in Wonderland. I didn't know that there are a lot of other people who feel the same way. I did want to ask my colleague from Massachusetts who made the contention that if we get $1.90 back for every dollar we spend, we don't understand why the Democrats are stopping at spending $34 billion for these unemployment benefits. But I do want to come back to the issue of being Alice in Wonderland. And recently, there have been several articles that have been published that have talked about this being Alice in Wonderland and the tea party, and I would like to quote from one of those articles from The Washington Times this Monday. ``A recent CBS Poll reports that 74 percent of the population thinks the nearly $1 trillion stimulus package either hurt or had no impact on the economy. Simply put, that means three-fourths of the American people think the stimulus package was a $1 trillion waste of money.…”