Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Nebraska for his observations. In a minute I want to turn to the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee to talk about setting priorities, because that is something we are not doing here. I do want to point out in the course of this discussion, however, that what you have said is exactly right. You cut spending and you grow the economy. One of the things you need to do is you have got to create jobs, you have to get economic expansion going. The way not to do that is to raise taxes, and that is the prescription many of our colleagues on the other side would like: Let's get more revenue and raise taxes. That is absolutely the opposite thing that you would do when you have got a downed economy and you are trying to create jobs. What we ought to be looking at is how do we reduce the size of government, get us living within our means, and getting the economy growing and expanding again and creating jobs. I want to point out one thing. This is important, in my view. We are planning right now, to the extent that there is any planning going on here--and, unfortunately, without a budget it is very difficult to prioritize. But there are expectations about what revenues are going to be for the foreseeable future.…”