Political Quotes

“You know it is incredible, but, when you add up the 110 programs, and the gentleman from Arizona has just pointed out that this House has even rejected some of the 110 programs, but when you add up the 110 program terminations in the President's budget, and I have said from the beginning it is the only part of the budget that represents some real change, those 110 programs save $670 million. Mr. Chairman, that is millions. I did not say $670 billion. I said $670 million. If the President had not sent his budget to Capitol Hill and had put the Government on automatic pilot, we would have lower deficits and lower spending than under this proposal. I say to my colleagues, 'You can't change the facts, and the facts are that bragging about saving less than $1 billion as representing some kind of a breakthrough in this town, and then realizing the House is systematically rejecting even those minuscule savings, really shows us the kind of trouble we're in in this country.'”