Political Quotes

“I too rise to speak on an important topic to everybody in this Nation; that is, the balanced budget amendment. I will comment on what my colleague across the aisle said. If you want to blame people, that is fine, there is plenty of blame to go around. The only thing the balanced budget threatens is politicians' ability to spend money beyond their means. We simply cannot write bad checks up here and get away with it. If you want to stop that at home, let people know that you want a bad check from the Congress, and that would be the only one I know who is against a balanced budget amendment. When we do that, and I hope we do, we have to make some hard choices. The National Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Arts are things that mean a lot to me personally. But when it comes time to balance the budget, we are going to have to say ``no'' to groups of people we have never said ``no'' to before. That is what you do every day at home, you have to do things that you have to do within your budget constraints; you have to say ``no'' to yourself. That is a new and novel idea up here, to say ``no.'' But let the great debate begin, once the balanced budget amendment passes, I hope we will have the courage to say ``no,'' even to worthwhile projects.”