Political Quotes

“So to answer the good gentleman from Texas, the Federal Reserve is trying to cool down the fires of an overinflated, overheated economy by raising the interest rates and targeting the housing market. New home buyers that are hoping to get out there and start their lives in their new homes, they cut their purchases in half or whatever, because they can't afford it. The Federal Reserve is trying to cool down this overheated economy, inflationary pressures and food and gasoline and oil, electricity, housing, meanwhile the House of Representatives and the Senate and the Presidency here in Washington, D.C., are throwing the gasoline on the fire, the gasoline of unaccounted for money, unprinted money, untaxed money, just creating money out of thin air and throwing it onto the fire. I would agree with the gentleman from Texas. I would tell him, as well, that my daughters would like their father to be home for Christmas, too. My daughter texted me today when she knew I wasn't coming home yet, she said, ``Stay strong and save America.'' So me and Mr. Roy, the gentleman from Texas, we are going to stay here until the bitter end and do our duty, and we are going to say things like $4.2 million in earmarks for parking spaces in the Northern Mariana Islands or $6 million to expand the reach of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library might be important things, but can we afford them? What is the Federal responsibility? And oh, by the way, regarding the Ulysses S.…”