Political Quotes

“along those lines, President Clinton had a good quote. A good definition of insanity was doing everything the same and expecting different results. That would be crazy. If you do everything the same, it will probably turn out the same. The budget debate is often talked about in my district, ``Why can you not come to an agreement on the budget? What is wrong with all you guys and ladies up there?'' I ask this to the audience that comes to my town meetings: ``Have you ever had a disagreement in your family about how to spend and how much to spend?'' And everybody laughs and everybody raises their hands. It is probably not uncommon for American families to have arguments at times over how to construct the family budget and how much to spend and where to spend it. That is exactly what is going on in this Congress right now. We are having an overdue, long overdue debate about how much money to spend at the national level and where should it be spent. Let us kind of give people at home an update of where we are right now in the process. Here we are in March 1996. We have had a couple of budgets vetoed. One budget that would have balanced in the year 2002 was offered by the Republicans that spent $12 trillion, $12.004 trillion, to run the Federal Government over the next 7 years. When you compare that $12 trillion expenditure to the last 7 years, it was a 26-percent increase in Federal spending.”