Political Quotes

“I rise today in the spirit of the Hershey accords, the achievements of our recent weekend in Hershey, PA, to join my colleagues in offering this special order. Probably the most important bipartisan issue we can address for the citizens of this country is the balancing of the Federal budget. I rise here today and will be joined by several of my distinguished colleagues, not least of which is Gil Gutknecht, a Congressman from Minnesota, and urge the President to work with us using the same economic assumptions, meeting the requests made by the Congress following the number of elections and producing a budget that responsibly balances our budget by the year 2002. Once we can see where the President's priorities are in the free market of a balanced bucket then we can begin a civil debate over the policy differences among the various proposals. I just want to say at the outset that my feelings are that having talked to Republicans and Democrats alike this past weekend, our issues of balancing the budget, campaign finance reform, working on things like FDA reform, improving our transportation and working on other issues of common concern throughout the Congress certainly can be accomplished because the bipartisan spirit that I felt and the finding the common ground, I think, was very special.”