Political Quotes

“when the American middle class hears the Democrats talk about reform, they ought to consider the record in the House of Representatives. Several months ago, when there were eruptions of scandal in the House of Representatives, we were promised reform. We had a restaurant scandal, we had a post office scandal, and we had a bank scandal. A scandal seemed to be erupting every day. The leadership of this House of Representatives promised that there was going to be reform, that we would have a professional administrator to take care of those kinds of problems in the future. That professional administrator has now resigned. The question is, Why? He just resigned because we have not reformed. The House Information System that was supposed to be placed under the House administrator was never given to him. What was the official explanation for that? Well, we were told the resolution was passed in the last Congress and, therefore, it was not binding on this Congress. The Democrat patronage operation, which was supposed to be shut down, we thought, still exists. It is still being paid. It is still being assigned people under the patronage system. There has been no reform. Mr. Speaker, one of my colleagues said a few minutes ago in coming to the House Chamber that we were going to have a momentous occurrence, that the temperature is going to drop below the congressional approval rating. No wonder. This House does not know how to reform.”