Political Quotes

“When some of us go home and we speak to different groups about how Congress conducts its business, one of the parts of those conversations that may be hard to understand is that we have personal relationships and that we have people on both sides of the aisle who we respect and we like. So especially during these times it becomes difficult for some of us when, for instance, a person like myself looks at a Chairman Rogers or a Chairman Wolf or a Chairman Simpson, and we know that these are good people who are totally confused as to what it is we're supposed to be doing. You say to a Republican these days, Good morning; and he or she answers, Cut the budget. The sky is blue. Cut the budget. We all understand the need to get certain amounts of spending under control, but the problem is that some folks--and this bill shows that-- continue to totally misunderstand that, yes, we may have economic issues that we have to deal with--that's a given--but we are also still--and are perhaps forever--the greatest country on Earth. How did we get there? We didn't get there because we decided every couple of years to simply cut the budget. We got there because we invested money; because we created, yes, rules; because we created, yes, laws that protected our way of life and the way that we wanted our future generations to be treated.…”