Political Quotes

“Now, we recognize there is spending we need to do right now, in intelligence gathering, in defense, in homeland security. It is critical. It is increases. We all voted for it and we are going to keep voting for it. But that is all the more reason to be cautious on the other areas that have nothing to do with the threat to our Nation, with the attack that we suffered. We need to be cautious there and rein in the excessive tendencies, so we can at some point in the near future get back to balancing this budget, get back to retiring some debt. But, most of all, in the meantime, we have got to get this economy going. We have too many people out of work, and that is our obligation. Our responsibility is to create an environment where folks can get back to work, where our economy can flourish, where businesses can hire new workers. We started that process. In the House we passed a bill that will move us in that direction. The President supports our bill. The President, in fact, called for doing more than we did in the House. I wish we had. But at least we moved in that direction, significantly.”