Political Quotes

“Right. The good news may be that Congress will not get paid, too. They may like that part of it, but they will not like the other parts, the Government they have come to rely on in the discretionary side of the budget. But let us talk a minute about what we have done. We have spent a lot of money in additional spending but we have done the most responsible thing you could do, if you have a chance to participate in this great democracy at this level, and that is change the reason we got in debt. Let us talk a minute about not just how much we spend on Medicare but the improvements we have made to make sure that, one, it does not go broke, and two, that we will have a Medicare system for our generation. What we have tried to do is we have looked at the private sector, which is a new and novel idea up here, instead of looking to another bureaucracy and to another agency and building more buildings in Washington, we have looked outside the institution itself, outside the Beltway, we have looked in the heartland of America and we have found out that there are some great ideas in health care. Let us create some of those ideas and give options to senior citizens, something new and novel in Washington also for people who rely on the Government to have a menu of things to choose from. As a Congressman I think we have 3 or 4 health care plans to choose from.”