Political Quotes

“No, I won't, not at this moment. Don't leave. I'll get to you. I've got to finish this because this is the problem with the dysfunctional nature of what happened here in Congress 2 years ago, which then, when we took the majority in January of last year, we inherited--no budget--just like our colleagues on other side have not produced a budget in more than 1,000 days. They still haven't produced a budget. If you and I were on a board of directors of some nonprofit and if we didn't do a budget every year, they'd rightfully say that you're being malfeasant, that you're not doing your job. So the House passed a budget. The House, under Speaker Boehner, also funded the government. That wasn't easy, but we only have a majority on a good day in a third of the process, so we had to work with our friends on the other side and with the President downtown. At the end of the day, though, we funded the government for the rest of the fiscal year. You talk about anxiety in the markets and all that. By the way, in having brought some stability back to government, in having seriously said we have to pay for spending and cuts by cutting spending, the market now is at the highest level it has been since the crash in '08 or thereabouts. So it is coming back. Now, that doesn't help the average Joe out there on the street necessarily or people trying to find work, and there has been a lot of effort to try and deal with that, but we have a long way to go.…”