Political Quotes

“I want to talk about reality and fact today versus uncertainty and doubt. And the uncertainty and doubt mentioned is budget estimates. The reality is it has been done. It has been done in many States. But Ohio sets an example, one of the larger budgets in the United States, and you have the executive budget, you have the legislative budget office. Sometimes their statistics do not agree. But you come to a middle point and you take the conservative end of it. Usually that tends to give us the basis to be able to operate on a balancing budget. The doubt, it has not all been set out over the course of the next 7 years. The reality, the State of Ohio, like many other States, has made it a reality that we set out a budget pattern. We accomplish a short-term goal, and it works. The doubt, this system will not work: The reality, it does. Last month I was chairman of the senate finance committee in Ohio. I guarantee you had we told the members magically there is no more cap on the Ohio budget, the end result is they would have crawled on glass to get there to spend money. It does work.”