Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I support the Conrad-Gregg fiscal action task force amendment. I am going to vote for it, and I do so not because I think it is the best solution. The best solution would be for us, year to year, to reconcile that which we spend and the amount of money we have to spend. But we don't do that, and we are now in a position where we have an unsustainable fiscal policy. It just is. I know people on that side want to blame this administration; people on this side want to blame the last 8 years. Whatever the blame might be, let me say that we are on an unsustainable course, and it is required, in my judgment, by Republicans and Democrats, to come together to find a way to address it. This is not the best way, but it is probably the only way we are ever going to get some control. I have heard so many people come to the floor of the Senate to say this administration is a socialist administration; it is going to spend this country into the ground. I have heard all of that. It is easy for me to stand here and go all the way back to a time when I stood on this floor--a time when we had the only budget surplus in several decades-- and say in response to a President's proposal to spend it before it even existed, and all we had was 10 years of projections, why not be conservative? These surpluses only exist this year, not for the next 10 years. Let's be a little conservative. And the blowback was: Katey, bar the door. Let's do big tax cuts. Let's do all these things.…”