Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, we enter into another chapter of the ongoing struggle in Washington to define our view of how the Federal Government ought to operate. I want to kind of go back to the beginning of the book and start at the beginning and move up to where we are today. You might recall that last February, the President came to Capitol Hill and stood in the well and he said, ``I did promise you a tax cut, but now we are going to have tax increases, and I would like you to be patriotic.'' He turned to the Republicans and said, ``If you do not like my tax increases, give me your specifics.'' So the Republicans did give the President their specifics in terms of reducing the deficit by even more than what the President reduced the deficit by, without one dime of tax increase. That document was praised by a number of publications across this country, from liberal to conservative, for its intellectual honesty and its effort to reduce government. We were rejected in that effort to show the American people how we would eliminate the tax increases and substitute instead the changes in the operation of the Federal Government to achieve significant deficit reduction, more than what the President achieved, but without taxes.”