Political Quotes

“let me just say to my Republican colleagues particularly and to those Democrats who were considering casting a vote for this, this is like the end of a horse race, maybe like the Kentucky Derby, but that would not be appropriate; the last race in the Triple Crown. What we have done is we have kept our promises. We signed a Contract With America back last fall, and we said that there were a variety of things that we were going to do. We were going to downsize the operations of this House. We were going to cut committees. We were going to cut committee staff. We were going to cut committee funding. We said we would pass the Shays Act which would say that all laws we apply to the American people ought to be applied to ourselves. We said we would pass the balanced budget amendment. We got it done. We said we were going to pass the line-item veto. We got it done. And you know what else we said? We said we were going to come to this floor, that we were going to downsize the operation of the Federal Government as we head into the 21st century. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the American people are with us. The American people resent the fact that more of their money and more of their power and more control has been sent from where they live to this city. What the Republicans are beginning to do is to listen to the communications of the American people, and the will of the American people is simple.…”