Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there is no reason for any of you to know me. My whole life has been spent in the private sector, and I have really come to believe that nobody should serve in the public sector unless they first have been in the private sector. {time} 1445 My whole life has been about making sure that on the 6th of each month and the 21st of each month--they are special days for me because those were days that the people who worked with me every day got paid. We use something called kitchen table economics. I sit beside David, and I talk to him all the time. I am more of a person who says: Do you know what? Let's use kitchen table economics. Now, I am told that Army manuals are written on a sixth-grade level so that people can understand them. I want to show you something. I reduced this down to a $1 bill because when you hear our friends talking about: Oh, no, you can cut spending. You can do this. I want you to think not as a Member of Congress who can spend whatever he or she wants because it is not coming completely out of your pocket but of the American people, hardworking American taxpayers. We took a dollar bill and said: Let's look at this dollar bill. Mandatory spending is money that has to be spent out of every dollar we collect from a taxpayer, $0.63. Look at this. What do you mean by that? Well, we are talking about Social Security. We are talking about Medicare. We are talking about Medicaid.…”