Political Quotes

“let us try to get to this all in perspective. The President came up here several years ago and stood right at this podium and the President said, we are going to use the same arithmetic; Congress is going to use the arithmetic that I use, I am going to use the arithmetic they use, and we will use the most conservative numbers. Some of the Republicans booed him when he said that, but we decided to take him up on the challenge. We might argue a lot about policy, but we should not argue about arithmetic. The simple fact of the matter is the President sent us a budget and it is not in balance. It is $69 billion short. So for the Americans out there hoping that we can finally get this done, they need to understand that we now have the first part of this. The President sent us a budget. It does not balance. It is almost $70 billion in the hole in the last year. Plus, in the very first year, the first real test of the intent of the President's budget, the deficit is $24 billion higher than if the President's budget had never gotten here.”