Political Quotes

“Maybe there is a new consensus in the Democratic Party. Maybe there is a new conscience about deficits that was never exhibited during the decades in which the Democratic Party controlled the Federal Government and ran up massive deficits and accumulated a huge debt. There was no evidence of that conscience then, but maybe there is one now. Maybe there is a new sense of fiscal responsibility. Since those folks are so upset about this deficit and the debt that is occurring, then what we ought to do, and frankly, what we all ought to do, myself and all the Republicans, what we ought to do is seriously consider the alternative budget that they have proposed, the alternative budget that those folks ran in the Committee on the Budget, the alternative budget that would have no deficits, that would accomplish all the goals that they have talked about. But why is it that we do not consider that alternative budget? Well, they know the reason for that, too. It is because they do not have one. All the rhetoric, the demagoguery, the attacks occur, but there are no alternatives.”