Political Quotes

“But let me just suggest, though, that I am very pleased to hear the gentleman say that he recognizes that there is a next step. Because if we walk away from this problem of the baby boomers retiring, as the gentleman knows, we are not going to survive in America as we have known it. I would like to say to the gentleman, and to the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Spratt] and my friend from the State of Washington, that the Committee on the Budget intends to pursue a very aggressive examination of this big wave, the tidal wave that is coming. I expect to have Democrats participate in the settings that we create, the witnesses that we call in. Because the only way we are going to be able to deal with all this is to deal together, without having people standing in the well yelling and screaming and trying to scare the elderly in our country. So we are going to vote for this motion to instruct, but I am very sensitive about the idea that we want to let people know everything is done, taken care of.”