Political Quotes

“Every coin and bill we use bears the phrase ``In God We Trust.'' Sadly, today, our trust tends to stop there. I don't recall hearing ``In Government We Trust'' very often. President Reagan governed on the phrase ``Trust, but verify.'' This holds true to the Founders' original plan of three branches of government working to safeguard the people from overreach or abuse of power by any one. Current scandals fly in the face of the very principles and ethos we live our lives by and the values we were founded upon. I can tell you that we in southern and southwest Ohio take pride not only in hard work but honest work. We now face an executive branch so vast that those who are in charge now claim that full accountability is impossible. They claim that government is too vast to be held accountable. Mr. Speaker, I will not give up on the goodness of the American citizen and the possibility of responsibility and trust that we should be able to have in our government. ____________________”