Political Quotes

“it is a good thing I have been lifting weights. This is what I could accumulate in terms of what the Republicans and any budget team that I have been associated with since 1989 have put together in terms of details. See this? This is pretty heavy. Most Americans would probably have a little trouble, and I am not sure if the gentleman from South Carolina could hold this up, actually. This is pretty heavy. But, nevertheless, all that is detailed work to provide for a balanced budget. This was an effort that some of us started in 1989. When it was not cool to be for balanced budgets, we were out here doing it. We got as many votes as you could put in a telephone booth, but the fact is that we came in 1989 and I came on this floor against a Republican President. I came on this floor in 1990 against a Republican President. I came on this floor twice in 1990, the first time in 1990, the second time I went to the Rules Committee with about $780 billion worth of savings and the Rules Committee would not let me offer it on the House floor because it was $10 billion short. Then in 1993 the President said show us your budget, and the Committee on the Budget wrote the most detailed and extensive budget ever produced since the Budget Act of 1974. And then we came back in 1994 and then we came back in 1995 and in 1996. I have got to tell you this.…”