Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman yielding the time. The gentleman from Indiana, my good friend, is right. This is a very difficult vote and a tough choice, but the good news is that Members do not need to have a long-term memory to understand what is happening here. They can act on their short-term memory, because this is the third time in just three years that we have had massive emergencies that have required us to break our commitments with respect to spending caps. I was not happy when I went through the list of cuts that are on this amendment. Some of them made me smile because I agree with them. Some of them made me flinch a little bit, and some of them, frankly, made my stomach tight, understanding that they were on the list. But that is the essence of tough choices. That is the essence of bipartisanship. But I think my friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Condit] had it right at the beginning when he said that there are no good choices here today. But the final choice is whether we pay for this emergency ourselves, or whether we pay for it by asking our children to do so. I choose to pay for it ourselves.”