Political Quotes

“Frankly, the gentleman from Georgia has led the way here in Congress, I would say. What we are trying to do is take a page out of the American industries' book. If you are running a corporation, you want to make sure the bottom line is that, ``We are doing our services and we are not wasting, because if we are wasting, then we are not delivering for the taxpayer,'' or in the case of business, a customer, what is a fair return on their investment. We want to make sure we are doing exactly what the American public wants, I think whether it is the downsizing of the Federal bureaucracy and agencies duplicating each other's work or whether it is the line item veto, which the House has now passed. We are waiting for the conference committee from the Senate's passage of a slightly different bill, and eventually the President's signature, that line item veto will cut out the wasteful pork barrel which every taxpayer in every jurisdiction knows has caused a great deal of harm, along with unfunded mandates, which we passed.”