Political Quotes

“we've been told time and time again that spending has already been cut to the bone and that we can't cut anything without shredding the fabric of our society. Well, that's not true. All sorts of needless bureaucracies continue to waste all sorts of money and eat a hole in our wallets. Today, I'd like to call attention to one of the more egregious examples I've seen during my first month on the job. I am referring to the tripe that I and all my colleagues received this past week from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH produced and sent around to us something called a Conversation Kit, more formally entitled a ``National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity.'' Inside you'll find 20 or so high-gloss pamphlets, some of them 30 or 40 pages long, that contain readings of varying quality, simplistic questions, and the Government's edicts on how folks should talk to each other. This is the brainchild of NEH Chairman Sheldon Hackney and his band of ``culture bureaucrats,'' as George Will has labeled them. Its basic assumption is that we, as free-thinking Americans, need the Government to tell us how to engage in day-to-day conversations.”