Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I always tell people back home: Beware of bipartisanship. The most bipartisan thing in Washington, D.C., is bankrupting our country, if not financially, morally. As my colleague from Texas just highlighted, it is not just the spending; it is all the terrible policies that are attached to the spending. We can tell by the way the time is structured, but it is bipartisan. It is 50/50 Republicans and Democrats. One of the mottos in the first unit I was in in the Army was, ``Deeds Not Words.'' The words are so good. I was down at the border with the Speaker and 60 of my colleagues, and we were going to fight. We were only going to fund a border that is secure. We were going to fund the government, but only if we secure the border. We were going to make the Senate a counteroffer, but by the time we could even get back to this town, our Speaker had surrendered to a four-corners deal, the very thing we said we wouldn't do. It is the deeds that are the problem. If we were back in the minority, we would be united again. We would be opposed to this. We were just a year ago. We were opposed to it. The words were good, and the deeds were also good, but now when we have the chance to govern, it seems we have lost our resolve. Who is getting hurt by this? The American people are getting hurt by this. None of us promised to come here and do this.…”