Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from the other side of the aisle, but I want to clarify. It is not a cut. We are actually increasing the spend; just not as much. Now, I know in Washington, oh, my goodness, who knew the request was up to $4 billion? I imagine they would take more than $4 billion if we gave it to them. We are broke. Hello, America. Wake up, everybody. I have a news flash for you. We don't have anymore money. We are borrowing money to pay the bills. We are borrowing money to pay for things that we can't afford. That is what we are trying to fix here. If you want to save some money somewhere else and spend it here, I am all ears. Let's talk about it. Something has to give. These people can't afford any more. They are not getting more out of this. I have been in the room. I used to sit on appropriations in the State House. I know how it goes. Well, we spent this much this year or last year. We are just going to add some more this year. Nobody goes through line by line and says, oh, well, this costs this much more because concrete costs X and labor costs Y. Nobody does that. They just add money to it. It is all arbitrary, and we know it. Everybody in this place knows it. That is why we should spend less because we don't have the money to spend. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”