Political Quotes

“let me just say that it is in my judgment even more than about just adding up this column with this column. Frankly, Americans for a significant period of time now believe that their hard-earned tax dollars are going to programs that do not make sense, programs in this city, run by people addicted to Washington spending, who do not do it with a sign above their desk that says, this is not your money. In other words, the American people believe the people in this city are not good stewards of their hard-earned pay. They are sick and tired of sending money, power and influence to this city, a city that has been proceeding on a course that is bankrupting this country and at the same time not solving the problems that we have. Do my colleagues know what I think Americans are saying? Let me do it. Let me keep my money in my community. Let me have my influence back. Let me have control of my neighborhood. Mr. Bureaucrat in Washington, I do not really need you in my neighborhood. Frankly, I wish you would just stay in Washington and let me run my own neighborhood. What you have delivered to us, Mr. Chairman, is a new process. You have given us a new paradigm. That new paradigm is that this city counts less and people out across this countryside count more. This is a response to what the American people have wanted in this country. Mr. Speaker, I will suggest that, if we had not stood on principle, if we had not made the fight that we have made, we would have lost this.”