Political Quotes

“Let me ask the gentleman, let us go back to the coffee shop in Arkansas. In fact, it would be fun to be there this Saturday to see their reaction. I am going to be in a coffee shop in Westerville, OH, this Saturday. If you went to the people at the counter and you said, ``You know, we have got a budget plan. It really does cut the number of paper clips and the number of trips that bureaucrats make around this country especially in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, and it is going to mean you are going to not be able to print as many papers,'' and just look around this place today and all the paper just sitting here, and you are going to have to cut back some of these overhead expenses in the Federal Government, and you said to them, ``You know, we are going to take this money, and some of it, tougher choices, and we are going to apply a big, big chunk of it to reducing the national or to reduce the deficit, but we are going to give your kids, we are going to give your kids a little bit of it, we are not going to make your kids pay for it later by giving it to you, we are going to pay for what we are giving them now, but we are going to reduce the deficit by $150 billion more than the President does,'' and I am going to tell them that at this coffee shop that, ``I want to give you a little benefit from that right now for your family who has been under siege,'' what do you think the reaction would be at your luncheon counter? I know what it is going to be in Westerville.…”