Martin Hoke: “You know, what I hear in everything that is being said tonight is that it sounds to me like we have got a pendulum that…”

“You know, what I hear in everything that is being said tonight is that it sounds to me like we have got a pendulum that has been way out here, and it is moving back. It is moving back in a lot of different ways. It is moving back with respect to reform of our criminal justice system so that the victim gets an even break instead of just the criminal. It sounds like we are moving back toward the center in our way of regulating enterprise so that the enterprise gets a break, the farmer gets a break, the person that is creating jobs so that he or she can create more jobs, is getting a break, and we are swinging back that way. And it sounds like with respect to the regulation of Government itself, we are giving tools in this case to our executive branch with the line-item veto, to the Congress itself with respect to the balanced budget amendment. So there can be some fiscal sanity, some basic common sense in the way we spend the taxpayers' money. And it seems to me that this is a theme that we have seen in terms of what the American people want repeated over and over and over again, and I believe that is why they gave us the honor of having a majority, and it is our job, it is our job to keep the promises that we made to the American people and to fulfill them in a way that gives them confidence in our ability to govern and to bring about the kind of commonsense legislation in governing that they expect, demand, and deserve.”