Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, sometimes when I come out on this floor I think I have entered the French theater of the absurd. We are having a bill brought here to us about financial advice. I remember, when this year started, that we had $5.6 trillion in surplus, and all the discussion was about what should we do with it: Shall we pay off the debt? Shall we save it for Social Security? Shall we save it for Medicare? The decision was, oh, the first thing we should do is give about $2 trillion of it away. We have now spent all the Social Security money. That is the advice we are giving to the American people, and then we say, we want to turn you over to the hands of these nice salesmen, they will take care of you. We have taken away their medical security. If we were under ERISA, we would be before the courts for the way we are handling the investments of our constituents. We got so wild around here with our tax cuts and all the problems after they figured it all out, and said, well, we need an economic stimulus bill. So we come out here with a nonsense bill, give it another $161 billion off to major companies in this country. This is our advice to America.”