Political Quotes

“I am frankly kind of astounded by what I have just heard because I thought that was a speech laying in the bottom of the desk drawer from 6 years ago. It is so far from representing reality, I am really stunned. I want to say what the budget does. I think the people will be very surprised when they hear about what we have in this budget. First of all, this will be the second year, I think in my lifetime, that the politicians in Washington kept their mitts off of Social Security. That never happened before. In 1995, we were running $175 billion deficits; and they were projected to be as far as the eye could see, and here we are for the second year in a row, because of the leadership of people in this House, we are not going to touch the Social Security surplus. We are locking it up. We are saying to senior citizens, we are not going to take one dime of it and use it for any other spending like my colleagues on the other side of the aisle did for all of my lifetime. We are saying we are not going to touch it. We are going to lock it up. We are going to put an electric fence around it, and it will only be used to pay for Social Security benefits or to pay down debt. We are the first group of leaders in this town to keep our mitts off of Social Security in decades. It is amazing.…”