Political Quotes

“My problem is that we are always, it seems, attempting to amend the Constitution. This is twice in this young legislative year that this House has attempted to amend the Constitution of the United States, and the Senate has attempted to amend the Constitution once themselves. That was a balanced budget amendment that the other body had taken up. It would appear to me that this amendment is anathema to a balanced budget amendment. It requires a supermajority to raise taxes, but it does not require a supermajority to spend money. So we go back really to policies of the 1980's that took this country from about a $1 trillion debt to over a $4 trillion debt. It is OK that we continue to spend, but we are not going to raise the taxes to pay for it. I do not think that rewriting the Constitution of the United States every time that there is a problem is truly something that is conservative. Our Founding Fathers did adopt a very simple principle. They wrote the Constitution. They said that this national government should operate through a majority rule.”