Political Quotes

“Absolutely; just 1 quick second. I have been involved here where we have voted and lost the vote on the balanced budget amendment. I think as Republicans we would certainly give a Democratic administration the line-item veto, but that is not going to go anywhere. Penny-Kasich I thought was a tremendous opportunity, again, a penny on the dollar, $95 billion, that did not go anywhere. It just missed by a handful of votes. There was a package group of cuts of various programs. There are people who say that the only way we are going to really get significant control of spending is to do something similar to a Base Closure Commission, and it seems to me we should be able to not have a third party do what we are elected to do. Leon Panetta, the morning of the balanced budget amendment vote, came out on TV and said, "Look, we do not need a constitutional amendment to force us to do what we are sent here to do." The problem is that what we have been sent down here to do does not seem to be working, so the A to Z is a new attempt, a new process, a new idea which is a potentially revolutionary idea but very simple, and hopefully this will be a process that will work.”