Political Quotes

“let me state one simple fact. The Democrats have no budget proposal. We worked long and hard on a budget, and let me state it again. At no time did the Democrats come forth with any budget proposal from the House. The President had a budget, yes, but did he take the trouble? No, he left us with $200 billion in the hole. He did not offer any response to the problems with Medicare or Medicaid, no proposals at all. So the President punted, just as the House Democrats punted in the Committee on the Budget, and now they have the audacity to come out here when we have proposals to help people for the future of our country, for our grandchildren and our children, and the middle income people in this country, they come out with a motion like this. I think it takes a lot of gall to come out and, while proposing nothing positive throughout this whole process, to come forth and say, ``We want to go a different direction now.'' What we are saying, ``Let's get on board, let's go in a direction for the future of our country, for our children.'' Greenspan says, if we want to have the same kind of life for our children, our grandchildren, we better get about balancing this budget. Defeat this motion to instruct.”