Political Quotes

“I rise against the amendment. My district is 150 miles from New York City. I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge. I understand what the infrastructure is to the East, and I understand also a little bit about the threat. But this formula has been pretty carefully worked out on population and threat. If you are going to take $450 million away from the rest of the country and give it to metropolitan New York, how are you going to do that? You would have to take $35 million away from California. You would have to take $4 million away from the District of Columbia. I think that this is probably one of the high-threat areas. You would have to take $15 million away from Illinois. I think Chicago is probably a pretty high-threat area. You would have to take $14.75 away from my home State of Pennsylvania. On and on and on and on. This thing has been worked out. I admire the pluck of my friends from New York to try to get the money for what they think they need it but the whole country needs the money.”