Political Quotes

“I notice on the chart that it shows on the President's plan that the deficit begins to decrease rather rapidly after or the last year of his administration or after that. The problem with that expectation is that is making certain assumptions about what the next administration would propose and what that Congress would dispose. And those are assumptions that I think could be rather dangerous if, again, we are just working off of a plan. Again, I think we have to do what we can do when we can do it. And today is the time that I believe that the people that we represent, each of us represent, expect us to act. I think the chart that you are demonstrating or displaying once again shows that the difficult decisions are being passed on to the next President and to a subsequent Congress. We are here to act now. And I think that if I wrote back or if I was at a town hall meeting in my district and I told people that I am representing that you are going to have to reelect me three or four more times before we are going to start making some meaningful decisions to bring that budget into balance, I do not think they would be very happy with me.”