Political Quotes

“I intend to support a balanced budget amendment. Indeed I intend to support a number of different proposals in the hopes that at the end of the day we will have a balanced budget amendment pass this House of Representatives. I care about reducing the deficit. I have voted to do so repeatedly throughout the course of the legislative process over the last year and a half. The interest on the debt is killing us. It is stopping us from doing a whole variety of things that we need to do in this country, and we simply must get it under control. When people ask me why I support a balanced budget, Mr. Chairman, I tell them that more than any another reason it is because I care about children. I do not want to run up bills today and have my children have to pay for them. But I also do not want to leave them a country that is impoverished of the basic infrastructure to enable them to build the kinds of economy, and jobs, and growth that they need.”