Political Quotes

“Let me thank my colleague for yielding and let me say thanks to Chairman Ryan and members of the Budget Committee for a job well done. This is a tough process, making real decisions about our path for the future. The interesting thing I've found about this debate that's gone on the last 2 days is that our team actually went and made the tough choices--made the tough choices to preserve freedom in America and to deal with our fiscal nightmare. If you look at all the proposals we've seen in this debate, it's all more of the same. There are two things that are prevalent: let's raise taxes on the American people once again; and, secondly, let's kick the can down the road as if no one knows that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are going broke. Oh, yes, all these proposals we've seen continue to kick the can down the road. I think that the Path to Prosperity that Chairman Ryan and his committee have put together is a blueprint for America's future. We all know that we've got some $16 trillion worth of debt already--$1.3 trillion in a budget deficit this year alone. The American people know that they have got to live within their means; they have got to do a budget. They also know that you can't continue to spend money that you don't have. And so I applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they've made to try to do the right thing for the country and to lay out a real vision of what we were to do if we get more control here in this town.…”