Political Quotes

“We heard some comments on the House floor before about what people are offended at that my side speaks about, and the word ``oversight'' was used. I want to make it clear that I am the biggest supporter of oversight, but oversight does not mean destroying agencies, oversight does not mean cutting budgets down to a bare bone where they can't function, oversight does not mean going after the IRS simply because it is in some rule book that you always go after the IRS, oversight is not telling women what to do, and oversight is not telling the District of Columbia that it can't have any kind of self-government because, given a choice, we would not allow the District of Columbia to do anything, including what is allowed to be done by the Constitution. I just want to clarify that point. I believe--we believe--in oversight. But when you start oversight with the feeling that a zero budget would be the best way to go, when you start with a feeling of disrespect for the leader of our country, our President, when you start with a feeling that you got elected to Congress to oppose everything that happens in Congress and that only you can clean up and fix Congress, as if it needed fixing, sometimes I may be the only one who says it, but there is gridlock and there is democracy. Sometimes people don't agree, and when they don't agree, that is healthy.…”