Political Quotes

“I would just respond that the gentleman talked about--a ``couple of problems'' I think was the language he used referring to this program. It's hard to see when you have companies going bankrupt with taxpayer money, and 22 out of 26 of the projects that were funded were rated below investment grade credit quality--in other words junk status--it's hard to see how you can say ``a couple of problems'' when that's the history of this program. At some point, we're going to have to cut some spending. One of my favorite movies, and some of you may have seen the movie ``1776.'' It's a musical. It's when they draft the Declaration of Independence, and there's a great scene, a great line--there are many great scenes, but one of the ones that I remember, where they're going through the declaration that Jefferson has just written. They're marking it up, they're editing it. And as they go through it, there are Members of that Congress who say, Well, we don't want to say this because that might really offend King George. And if we say this, Parliament may not like that. And what about deep sea fishing rights? They go through this whole thing. Finally, John Adams stands up and says: It's a revolution, dammit; we're going to have to offend somebody. And at some point we've got to say we're so in debt we're going to have to cut something. Why not focus on a program that completely doesn't work? A program we all know has failed.…”