Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I am a little confused. I was listening to my colleagues on the other side talking about this budget and what it is going to do. We have just gone through 4 consecutive years of lowering the deficit. This began in 1993 with a very tough vote for some of us on this side of the aisle. Not one Republican voted for that budget back in 1993. In fact they stood up one after the other preaching doom and gloom, that the country was going to fall apart. This is the first time since FDR and Harry Truman that we have had 4 straight years of deficit reduction. It was started by President Clinton. In fact, the budget today would be balanced if we were not paying the interest on the debt of 12 years of Reagan and Bush running up the debt, quadrupling the deficit in this country. If it were not for the interest on the Reagan and Bush debt, the budget indeed would be balanced. Here come the Republicans. Not one vote did they give us in 1993, but they are telling us, 'If you allow us to increase the deficit next year, we'll balance the budget 6 years from now.' Mr. Speaker, I call this the wimpy budget: You will gladly pay us in 2002 if we give you a vote today.”