Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, by passing this legislation, we will be moving smartly from fuel tax fudging to truth in budgeting. How many of the Members would dare to stand at their gas pump and to tell each one of your constituents after you shake his or her hand, do you know that part of the tax that you are paying with each gallon of gas is going toward payment of welfare costs, toward foreign aid? Because that is the result of not spending their fuel tax for the dedicated purpose, just the opposite of what the opponents of this legislation are saying. The opponents are saying that if we go through with this plan as envisioned by this bill, we will be robbing our social programs of moneys. That means they must be paying for them now through the fuel tax that they are paying. Is that not the obvious, logical conclusion? Truth in budgeting means that the American people, to whom we owe full faith and credit, have a right to expect that their fuel tax goes for nothing but highways.”