Political Quotes

“I would also hope that people would look closely at the vote yesterday on the amendment that I offered to Senate Joint Resolution 1. We got 44 votes with one Senator being ill who is here today. And we will get on this amendment, I assume, a bare minimum 45 votes. I hope there will be some people like John McCain. You really do not have to talk about his courage. I think that has been established. It was established even before he was confined for 6 or 7 years to a prison camp in Vietnam. He is a courageous man. I think part of his courage was, certainly, apparent yesterday when he decided to vote with us on the amendment that I offered. The senior Senator from Pennsylvania also voted with us. I hope that we would get some other courageous people on the other side of the aisle to vote with us. Why? Because the balanced budget debate would be over for all time, because we would have to balance a budget. And it would be hard. We would have to make significant cuts or we would have to phase in and balance the budget, maybe by the year 2008, or maybe even 2010. But when that budget was balanced, I say to my friend from North Dakota, the debt clock would no longer continue to run. I am willing to do that. If we are going to stop playing games with the American public, then let's balance the budget the right way, the honest way.”